swell

Meanings

• the undulating movement of the surface of the open sea
• a rounded elevation (especially one on an ocean floor)
• a crescendo followed by a decrescendo
• a man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance
• 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"
• expand abnormally
  • "The bellies of the starving children are swelling"
• come up (as of feelings and thoughts, or other ephemeral things)
  • "Smoke swelled from it"
• come up, as of a liquid
• cause to become swollen
  • "The water swells the wood"
• very good

Synonyms

bang-up, beau, bully, clotheshorse, corking, cracking, crestless wave, dandy, dude, fashion plate, fop, gallant, great, groovy, intumesce, keen, neat, nifty, not bad, peachy, puff up, sheik, slap-up, smashing, swell up, tumefy, tumesce, well, well up