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Definition of Swell up
1. Verb. Expand abnormally. "Did his feet swell up?"; "The bellies of the starving children are swelling"
Specialized synonyms: Distend, Belly, Belly Out, Blow Up, Puff, Puff Out, Puff Up, Bloat, Blister, Vesicate
Generic synonyms: Expand
Derivative terms: Intumescence, Intumescency, Swelling, Tumefaction, Tumescent
Lexicographical Neighbors of Swell Up
Literary usage of Swell up
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A German-English Dictionary for Chemists by Austin McDowell Patterson (1917)
"... aufquellen, ».г. swell, swell up; well up.—vt cause to swell, swell, aufraffen,
vt rake up, collect. aufräumen, vt clear up, clear away, clear, open. ..."
2. Students Hebrew and Chaldee Dictionary to the Old Testament by Alexander Harkavy (1914)
"I. to swell up П(ЗУ.9 N1? ?|Ьй thy foot did not swell Deut.8,4. II. (sf spX?)
i». dough. pr. n. a place in the plain of Judah. to cut off, ..."
3. A Cyclopaedia of Six Thousand Practical Receipts, and Collateral Information by Arnold James Cooley (1850)
"This salt, which becomes wholly converted into a gaseous substance during the
operation of baking, causes the dough to swell up into air bubbles, ..."
4. The National Memorial Volume: Being a Popular Descriptive Portraiture of the by Richard Miller Devens (1879)
"Every avenue leading from Broadway, lent its quota of spectators, to swell up
the teeming mass. Many who had witnessed similar exhibitions of popular ..."
5. Secwana Dictionary: Secwana-English and English-Secwana by John Tom Brown (1895)
"... to swell up. ... To swell up, as an abscess ; to spring up, or swell out, &a
a mushroom. ..."
6. Just So Stories for Little Children by Rudyard Kipling (1902)
"The shark's tooth on my necklace is a magic shark's tooth, and I was always told
that if anybody touched it without my leave they would immediately swell up ..."
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