swollen

Words with a similar base: swollen, swollen-headed

'swollen'

[swell.v.01] as in: increase in size, magnitude, number, or intensity

Examples:
The music swelled to a crescendo

'swollen'

[swell.v.02] as in: become filled with pride, arrogance, or anger

Examples:
The mother was swelling with importance when she spoke of her son

'swollen'

[swell.v.03] as in: expand abnormally

Examples:
The bellies of the starving children are swelling

'swollen'

[well_up.v.01] as in: come up (as of feelings and thoughts, or other ephemeral things)

Examples:
Strong emotions welled up
Smoke swelled from it

'swollen'

[well.v.01] as in: come up, as of a liquid

Examples:
Tears well in her eyes
the currents well up

'swollen'

[swell.v.06] as in: cause to become swollen

Examples:
The water swells the wood

'swollen'

[conceited.s.01] as in: characteristic of false pride; having an exaggerated sense of self-importance

Examples:
a conceited fool
an attitude of self-conceited arrogance
an egotistical disregard of others
so swollen by victory that he was unfit for normal duty
growing ever more swollen-headed and arbitrary
vain about her clothes

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