Swollen is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SWOLLEN in dictionary:

VERB:
• SWELL, to increase in size or volume
• (especially of a part of the body) become larger or rounder in size, typically as a result of an accumulation of fluid
• be intensely affected or filled with a particular emotion
• become or make greater in intensity, number, amount, or volume
NOUN:
• a full or gently rounded shape or form
• a gradual increase in amount, intensity, or volume
• a welling up of a feeling
• a slow, regular movement of the sea in rolling waves that do not break
• a mechanism for producing a crescendo or diminuendo in an organ or harmonium.
• a fashionable or stylish person of wealth or high social position
ADVERB:
• excellently; very well
ADJECTIVE:
• excellent; very good
• smart; fashionable
• Enlarged by swelling; immoderately increased; as, swollen eyes; swollen streams.
• characteristic of false pride; having an exaggerated sense of self-importance
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• past participle of swell
• p. p. of Swell.

Words related to SWOLLEN

swell8 swelled11 swelling12 swells9

Words that contain SWOLLEN

swollenly15 unswollen12 upswollen14 outswollen13 overswollen17 swollenness14 swollennesses16

How to use SWOLLEN in a sentence

• And he remained livid, in consternation at it all, his bloated face swollen with grief, his heavy eyelids red with tears.
• He had a wet towel tied around his head, and his face looked swollen and puffy.
• My feet were swollen and still in plaster bandages.
• Recent rains had swollen the stream and the water was pouring over the dam.
• She was leaning on a stick and her hand was red and swollen with rheumatism.
• We do not exchange ten words in the course of the day, and the few syllables that our parched tongue and swollen lips can pronounce are almost unintelligible.
• I observed that the river, which passed my window, was much swollen, and rushed with great violence.
• In 1697, at the Peace of Ryswick, this debt had swollen to L14,522,000.
• He did as directed, and soon the swollen member felt far more comfortable.
• I was not surprised by the swollen state of her eyes, the paleness of her cheeks, or the fresh burst of tears that came from her when she took me in her arms at meeting.
• Her tongue and extremities and her body were not blackened, nor was the stomach swollen, nor did the hair and nails show any signs of falling, nor were the tissues eaten away.
• The river at that time being swollen above its banks, the persons appointed to dispose of the children could not reach the main current.
• He found it to be a dead mule swollen to gigantic size.
• Spratlin was lost when the little party attempted to ford the swollen Chagres River.
• If, indeed, the swollen lake had washed away the inner shore of the cove, the sequel would be serious if not tragic at that quiet road crossing.
• He regarded them with one perfectly good eye and one which was considerably swollen, and grinned a swollen grin.
• They seemed full of drunken people, shouting up and down with red faces all swollen with excitement.
• Harry appreciated the full danger of their situation, with the larger army in front of them, and the deep and swollen torrent of the Potomac behind them.
• My forehead felt as if it had swollen and extended the skin across it like elastic.
• Great delay occurred in crossing the Pushut river, which is much swollen from the heavy rain on the 4th.
• Thousands were driven by the conquerors into a stream, swollen by the rains, where they miserably perished.
• An inflamed part on the surface of the body is redder than the normal, swollen, hot and painful.
• Ramsay saw, by her red swollen eyes, that she had been weeping.
• When I came to spring or burn I put my foot in it, for it was hot and swollen now.

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