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swellingnoun a small rounded mass of swollen tissuethe swelling at the site of the insect bite was not too concerning bump, knot, lump, node, nodule growth, tumor, warthump, hunchbruise, contusion, weltblister, boilblob, chunk, clod, clump, gob, gobbet, hunk, knob, nub, nubble, nugget, wad to become greater in extent, volume, amount, or numberthe club membership has really swelled in recent months accelerating, accumulating, appreciating, ballooning, booming, building up, burgeoning(also bourgeoning), climbing, enlarging, escalating, expanding, gaining, increasing, mounting, multiplying, mushrooming, proliferating, rising, rolling up, snowballing, spreading, waxing jumping, rocketing, skyrocketing, surgingheightening, intensifying, redoublingblowing up, bulking, distending, inflating, puffing (up)crescendoing, cresting, peaking contracting, decreasing, diminishing, dwindling, lessening, receding, waning to make greater in size, amount, or numbermore layoffs will swell the ranks of the unemployed to unprecedented levels accelerating, adding (to), aggrandizing, amplifying, augmenting, boosting, building up, compounding, enlarging, escalating, expanding, extending, hyping, increasing, multiplying, pumping up, raising, stoking, supersizing, upping booming, jumping, skyrocketing, spikingbumping (up), ratcheting (up)also racheting (up)blowing up, dilating, distending, inflatingdrawing out, elongating, fleshing (out), lengthening, prolonging, protracting, stretchingdeveloping, enhancing, heightening, intensifying, magnifyingcomplementing, supplementingbeefing (up), reinforcing(also reenforcing), strengtheningmaximizingaccumulating, amassing, collectingfollowing up, parlaying abating, decreasing, de-escalating, diminishing, downsizing, dwindling, lessening, lowering, minifying, reducing, subtracting (from) abbreviating, abridging, curtailing, shorteningcompressing, condensing, constricting, contractingcutting back, retrenching to extend outward beyond a usual pointat that point the Congo River swells and forms Malebo Pool bagging, ballooning, beetling, bellying, billowing, bulging, bunching, jutting, overhanging, poking, pooching(chiefly dialect), pouching, pouting, projecting, protruding, standing out, starting, sticking out domingblowing up, inflatingdilating, distending, expandingmushrooming, snowballingelongating, extending, lengthening, stretching compressing, condensing, constricting, contracting, shrinking before the 12th century |