1. Feeling self-importance
   "had a swelled head"; "he was swelled with pride";
   - big, vainglorious

1. Increase in size, magnitude, number, or intensity
   "The music swelled to a crescendo"
    
2. Cause to become swollen
   "The water swells the wood"
    
3. Expand abnormally
   "The bellies of the starving children are swelling"; "His ankle swelled up after he twisted it";
   - swell up, intumesce, tumefy, tumesce, puff
    
4. Become filled with pride, arrogance, or anger
   "The mother was swelling with importance when she spoke of her son";
   - puff up
    
5. Come up (as of feelings and thoughts, or other ephemeral things)
   "Smoke swelled from it";
   - well up
    
6. Come up, as of a liquid
   "Tears swell in her eyes";
   - well

See also: proud

Type of: acquit, act, arise, bear, behave, carry, come up, comport, conduct, deport, develop, do, expand, grow, increase, originate, rise, rise up, spring up, surface, uprise [archaic, literary]

Encyclopedia: Swell, Steve