- big, swelled, vainglorious - feeling self-importance; "too big for his britches"; "had a swelled head"; "he was swelled with pride"
Antonym: humble (indirect, via proud)
- swell - increase in size, magnitude, number, or intensity; "The music swelled to a crescendo"
--1 is one way to increase
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- swell, puff up - become filled with pride, arrogance, or anger; "The mother was swelling with importance when she spoke of her son"
--2 is one way to act, behave, do
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- swell, swell up, intumesce, tumefy, tumesce - expand abnormally; "The bellies of the starving children are swelling"
--3 is one way to expand
Sample sentence:Derived form: noun swelling1
Did his feet swell?
- well up, swell - as of feelings and thoughts, or other ephemeral things; "Strong emotions welled up"; "Smoke swelled from it"
--4 is one way to originate, arise, rise, develop, uprise, spring up, grow
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- well, swell - come up; "Tears well in her eyes"
--5 is one way to surface, come up, rise up, rise
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- swell - cause to become swollen; "The water swells the wood"
--6 is one way to grow
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- swell, puff up - become filled with pride, arrogance, or anger; "The mother was swelling with importance when she spoke of her son"