Adjective: swelled sweld- Feeling self-importance
"had a swelled head"; "he was swelled with pride"; - big, vainglorious Verb: swell (swelled,swollen) swel- Increase in size, magnitude, number, or intensity
"The music swelled to a crescendo" - Become filled with pride, arrogance, or anger
"The mother was swelling with importance when she spoke of her son"; - puff up - Expand abnormally
"The bellies of the starving children are swelling"; - swell up, intumesce, tumefy, tumesce, puff - Come up (as of feelings and thoughts, or other ephemeral things)
"Smoke swelled from it"; - well up - Come up, as of a liquid
"Tears swell in her eyes"; - well - Cause to become swollen
"The water swells the wood"
See also: proud Type of: act, arise, behave, come up, develop, do, expand, grow, increase, originate, rise, rise up, spring up, surface, uprise Encyclopedia: Swell, Steve |