Adjective swelling has 1 sense
  1. swelling - becoming puffy as from internal bleeding or accumulation of other fluids; "put ice on the swelling ankle"
    Antonym:
    uninjured (indirect, via injured)
,Noun swelling has 2 senses
  1. swelling, puffiness, lump - abnormal protuberance or localized enlargement
    --1 is a kind of symptom
    --1 has particulars:
     spermatocele; bloat; bunion; edema, oedema, hydrops, dropsy; hematocele, haematocele, hematocoele, haematocoele; intumescence, intumescency; iridoncus; oscheocele, oscheocoele; tumidity, tumidness
    Derived form: verb swell3
  2. intumescence, intumescency, swelling - the swelling of certain substances when they are heated (often accompanied by release of water)
    --2 is a kind of chemical process, chemical change, chemical action
,Verb swell has 6 senses
  1. swell - increase in size, magnitude, number, or intensity; "The music swelled to a crescendo"
    --1 is one way to
    increase
    Sample sentences:
    Something ----s
    Something is ----ing PP
  2. 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
    Sample sentence:
    Something ----s
  3. swell, swell up, intumesce, tumefy, tumesce - expand abnormally; "The bellies of the starving children are swelling"
    --3 is one way to expand
    Derived form: noun swelling1
    Sample sentence:
    Did his feet swell?
  4. 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
    Sample sentences:
    Something ----s
    Something is ----ing PP
  5. well, swell - come up; "Tears well in her eyes"
    --5 is one way to surface, come up, rise up, rise
    Sample sentence:
    Something is ----ing PP
  6. swell - cause to become swollen; "The water swells the wood"
    --6 is one way to
    grow
    Sample sentence:
    Something ----s something
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