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swollen
/ ˈswəʊlən /
adjective
- tumid or enlarged by or as if by swelling
- turgid or bombastic
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Derived Forms
- ˈswollenly, adverb
- ˈswollenness, noun
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Other Words From
- swollen·ly adverb
- swollen·ness noun
- un·swollen adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of swollen1
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Example Sentences
Later, I took a photo of my eye with my cellphone, the skin around it still swollen, the whites streaked with popped red veins.
So the discs get all floppy, swollen, pop out left, pop out right.
Even reference seems to float free: Are those ten appendages swollen fingers, or dreadlocks, or sea cucumbers?
But the attitude of doctors was that if the lymph glands were swollen it was a good sign of a body fighting infection.
According to Robertson—not a registered dietician—low carb diets “build up clinkers” and “you get swollen joints, you get gout.”
A huge piece of black court plaister hid the wound on his swollen lip, a cup of tisane stood upon the table.
He had nearly bitten his swollen tongue in two falling over an unseen peat-cutting, and blood-flecked foam gathered on his lips.
But her bare and swollen feet caused her such pain that she fell on her knees, sobbing most pitifully.
He crossed the Tyne at Haltwhistle fords, losing many men in the swollen river.
To-day the frost is so intense that the noses of the Muscovites risk becoming swollen and frost-bitten.
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