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41swell — Synonyms and related words: Babylonian, Beau Brummel, Brahman, Corinthian, OK, accent, accent mark, accrue, accumulate, ace high, add to, advance, aggrandize, amplify, anthill, appreciate, archduke, aristocrat, armiger, augment, awake the dead,… …
42widen — Synonyms and related words: accrue, accumulate, add to, advance, aggrandize, amplify, appreciate, augment, balloon, bloat, blow up, boom, branch, branch out, breed, broaden, build, build up, bulk, bulk out, crescendo, deal in generalities, deepen …
43swell — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. i. expand, dilate, bulge, protrude; billow; increase, grow, surge. See water, feeling, pride. n. swelling, increase; billow, wave, groundswell, sea, roller; rise, slope, knoll. See convexity,… …
44swell — I. v. n. 1. Dilate, expand, tumefy, distend, fill out, intumesce, grow larger or bigger (by expansion). 2. Increase (by outward addition), augment, enlarge. 3. Rise (as waves), heave, surge. 4. Belly, be inflated. 5. Strut, look big, put on airs …
45bulge — 1. noun 1) a bulge in the tire Syn: swelling, bump, lump, protuberance, prominence, tumescence 2) informal a bulge in the population Syn: surge, upsurge, rise, increase, escalation …
46enlarge — verb 1) they enlarged the scope of their research Syn: extend, expand, grow, add to, amplify, augment, magnify, build up, supplement; widen, broaden, stretch, lengthen; elongate, deepen, thicken …
47puff up — the site of the incision may puff up slightly Syn: bulge, swell (up), stick out, distend, tumefy, balloon (up/out), expand, inflate, enlarge …
48swell — 1. verb 1) her lip swelled up Syn: expand, bulge, distend, inflate, dilate, bloat, puff up, balloon, fatten, fill out, tumefy Ant: shrink, contract 2) …
49balloon — n 1. aerostat, zeppelin, airship, dirigible, blimp, montgolfier, lighter than air craft. v 2. inflate, swell, swell out, bloat, belly, puff out, blow up, pump up, tumefy; dilate, distend, over distend, Obs. sufflate; expand, overexpand, stretch,… …
50blister — n 1. blain, boil, furuncle, carbuncle, pustule, pimple, papule, pock, wen, whelk, Rare. bleb, Archaic. botch. See blain . 2. swelling, bulging, bulge, bubble, protuberance, projection, prominence; growth, tumor, intumescence, tumefaction. v 3.… …
