- 2. Enhance, heighten, aggravate.
- 3. Puff up, make arrogant.
Swell, n.
- 1. Swelling.
- 2. Augmentation, protuberance.
- 3. Elevation, rise.
- 4. Force, intensity, power, crescendo.
- 5. Increase of power, increase of rhetorical force.
- 6. Ascent, elevation.
- 7. Waves, billows.
- 8. (Colloq.) Fox, coxcomb, dandy, beau, exquisite, jackanapes, popinjay, blade, buck, fine gentleman,
spark, jack-a-dandy, dandiprat, man milliner, man of dress, vain fellow.
Swelling, a. Bombastic, pompous, turgid, inflated, tumid, stilted, grandiloquent, pretentious, high-flowing, high-sounding, rhetorical, declamatory, grandiose.
Swelling, n.
- 1. Swell.
- 2. Protuberance, bump, prominence, rise.
Swell out. Bulge, protuberate.
Swelter, v. n. Be oppressed with heat, be overcome by heat, be hot.
Swerve, v. n.
- 1. Deviate, depart, diverge, turn aside, go astray.
- 2. Bend, incline, yield, give way.
- 3. Climb, move upward, swarm, wind.