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swelling
Part of speech: NounThe act of expanding, or increasing in bulk, etc.; state of being so increased; a boil or any enlarged sore part of the body.
Usage examples "swelling":- Swelling with importance, and drawing forth the volume in question from his pocket, Sonora stood up and finished: "- is 'Old Joe Miller's Jokes. - "The Girl of the Golden West", David Belasco.
- If I had come swelling myself like a great lady, worth sixteen hundred pounds, how all the people would have hated me! - "A Singer from the Sea", Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr.
- The prospect of a swelling as big as a man's fist and as painful as the touch of a red- hot iron passes through our mind at the moment when we are bringing down the net. - "More Hunting Wasps", J. Henri Fabre.