| swell | | |
| n. (event) | 1. crestless wave, swell | the undulating movement of the surface of the open sea. |
| ~ heavy swell, ground swell | a broad and deep undulation of the ocean. |
| ~ moving ridge, wave | one of a series of ridges that moves across the surface of a liquid (especially across a large body of water). |
| n. (object) | 2. swell | a rounded elevation (especially one on an ocean floor). |
| ~ natural elevation, elevation | a raised or elevated geological formation. |
| n. (attribute) | 3. swell | a crescendo followed by a decrescendo. |
| ~ crescendo | (music) a gradual increase in loudness. |
| n. (person) | 4. beau, clotheshorse, dandy, dude, fashion plate, fop, gallant, sheik, swell | a man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance. |
| ~ coxcomb, cockscomb | a conceited dandy who is overly impressed by his own accomplishments. |
| ~ macaroni | a British dandy in the 18th century who affected Continental mannerisms.; "Yankee Doodle stuck a feather in his cap and called it macaroni" |
| ~ adult male, man | an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman).; "there were two women and six men on the bus" |
| ~ beau brummell, brummell, george bryan brummell | English dandy who was a fashion leader during the Regency (1778-1840). |
| v. (change) | 5. swell | increase in size, magnitude, number, or intensity.; "The music swelled to a crescendo" |
| ~ increase | become bigger or greater in amount.; "The amount of work increased" |
| v. (social) | 6. puff up, swell | become filled with pride, arrogance, or anger.; "The mother was swelling with importance when she spoke of her son" |
| ~ behave, act, do | behave in a certain manner; show a certain behavior; conduct or comport oneself.; "You should act like an adult"; "Don't behave like a fool"; "What makes her do this way?"; "The dog acts ferocious, but he is really afraid of people" |
| v. (change) | 7. intumesce, swell, swell up, tumefy, tumesce | expand abnormally.; "The bellies of the starving children are swelling" |
| ~ distend | swell from or as if from internal pressure.; "The distended bellies of the starving cows" |
| ~ expand | become larger in size or volume or quantity.; "his business expanded rapidly" |
| ~ belly, belly out | swell out or bulge out. |
| ~ puff out, puff up, puff, blow up | to swell or cause to enlarge,.; "Her faced puffed up from the drugs"; "puffed out chests" |
| ~ bloat | become bloated or swollen or puff up.; "The dead man's stomach was bloated" |
| ~ blister, vesicate | get blistered.; "Her feet blistered during the long hike" |
| v. (stative) | 8. swell, well up | come up (as of feelings and thoughts, or other ephemeral things).; "Strong emotions welled up"; "Smoke swelled from it" |
| ~ arise, originate, spring up, uprise, develop, grow, rise | come into existence; take on form or shape.; "A new religious movement originated in that country"; "a love that sprang up from friendship"; "the idea for the book grew out of a short story"; "An interesting phenomenon uprose" |
| v. (motion) | 9. swell, well | come up, as of a liquid.; "Tears well in her eyes"; "the currents well up" |
| ~ rise up, surface, come up, rise | come to the surface. |
| v. (change) | 10. swell | cause to become swollen.; "The water swells the wood" |
| ~ grow | cause to grow or develop.; "He grows vegetables in his backyard" |
| ~ bulk, bulge | cause to bulge or swell outwards. |
| ~ swell up, tumesce, intumesce, tumefy, swell | expand abnormally.; "The bellies of the starving children are swelling" |
| ~ tumefy | cause to become very swollen. |
| ~ bloat | make bloated or swollen.; "Hunger bloated the child's belly" |
| adj. | 11. bang-up, bully, corking, cracking, dandy, great, groovy, keen, neat, nifty, not bad, peachy, slap-up, smashing, swell | very good.; "he did a bully job"; "a neat sports car"; "had a great time at the party"; "you look simply smashing" |
| ~ colloquialism | a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech. |
| ~ good | having desirable or positive qualities especially those suitable for a thing specified.; "good news from the hospital"; "a good report card"; "when she was good she was very very good"; "a good knife is one good for cutting"; "this stump will make a good picnic table"; "a good check"; "a good joke"; "a good exterior paint"; "a good secretary"; "a good dress for the office" |
| boil | | |
| n. (state) | 1. boil, furuncle | a painful sore with a hard core filled with pus. |
| ~ gumboil | a boil or abscess on the gums. |
| ~ staphylococcal infection | an infection with staphylococcus bacteria; usually marked by abscess formation. |
| n. (attribute) | 2. boil, boiling point | the temperature at which a liquid boils at sea level.; "they brought the water to a boil" |
| ~ temperature | the degree of hotness or coldness of a body or environment (corresponding to its molecular activity). |
| v. (change) | 3. boil | come to the boiling point and change from a liquid to vapor.; "Water boils at 100 degrees Celsius" |
| ~ change state, turn | undergo a transformation or a change of position or action.; "We turned from Socialism to Capitalism"; "The people turned against the President when he stole the election" |
| ~ boil over, overboil | overflow or cause to overflow while boiling.; "The milk is boiling over" |
| v. (change) | 4. boil | immerse or be immersed in a boiling liquid, often for cooking purposes.; "boil potatoes"; "boil wool" |
| ~ change | undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature.; "She changed completely as she grew older"; "The weather changed last night" |
| ~ overboil | boil excessively.; "The peas are overboiled" |
| ~ simmer | boil slowly at low temperature.; "simmer the sauce"; "simmering water" |
| v. (change) | 5. boil | bring to, or maintain at, the boiling point.; "boil this liquid until it evaporates" |
| ~ alter, change, modify | cause to change; make different; cause a transformation.; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue" |
| ~ decoct | extract the essence of something by boiling it. |
| ~ boil | come to the boiling point and change from a liquid to vapor.; "Water boils at 100 degrees Celsius" |
| v. (motion) | 6. boil, churn, moil, roil | be agitated.; "the sea was churning in the storm" |
| ~ seethe, roll | boil vigorously.; "The liquid was seething"; "The water rolled" |
| ~ move | move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion.; "He moved his hand slightly to the right" |
| v. (emotion) | 7. boil, seethe | be in an agitated emotional state.; "The customer was seething with anger" |
| ~ bubble over, spill over, overflow | overflow with a certain feeling.; "The children bubbled over with joy"; "My boss was bubbling over with anger" |
| ~ ferment | be in an agitated or excited state.; "The Middle East is fermenting"; "Her mind ferments" |
| ~ sizzle | seethe with deep anger or resentment.; "She was sizzling with anger" |
| ~ be | have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun).; "John is rich"; "This is not a good answer" |
| lump | | |
| n. (group) | 1. ball, chunk, clod, clump, glob, lump | a compact mass.; "a ball of mud caught him on the shoulder" |
| ~ clot, coagulum | a lump of material formed from the content of a liquid. |
| ~ agglomeration | a jumbled collection or mass. |
| ~ gob | a lump of slimy stuff.; "a gob of phlegm" |
| ~ clew | a ball of yarn or cord or thread. |
| n. (state) | 2. lump, puffiness, swelling | an abnormal protuberance or localized enlargement. |
| ~ spermatocele | a swelling on the epididymis or the testis; usually contains spermatozoa. |
| ~ symptom | (medicine) any sensation or change in bodily function that is experienced by a patient and is associated with a particular disease. |
| ~ enlargement | the state of being enlarged. |
| ~ bloat | swelling of the rumen or intestinal tract of domestic animals caused by excessive gas. |
| ~ bunion | a painful swelling of the bursa of the first joint of the big toe. |
| ~ dropsy, edema, hydrops, oedema | swelling from excessive accumulation of watery fluid in cells, tissues, or serous cavities. |
| ~ haematocele, haematocoele, hematocele, hematocoele | swelling caused by blood collecting in a body cavity (especially a swelling of the membrane covering the testis). |
| ~ intumescence, intumescency | swelling up with blood or other fluids (as with congestion). |
| ~ iridoncus | swelling of the iris of the eye. |
| ~ lymphogranuloma | swelling of a lymph node. |
| ~ oscheocele, oscheocoele | swelling of the scrotum. |
| ~ tumidity, tumidness | slight swelling of an organ or part. |
| n. (person) | 3. clod, gawk, goon, lout, lubber, lummox, lump, oaf, stumblebum | an awkward stupid person. |
| ~ clumsy person | a person with poor motor coordination. |
| n. (object) | 4. hunk, lump | a large piece of something without definite shape.; "a hunk of bread"; "a lump of coal" |
| ~ nodule | (mineralogy) a small rounded lump of mineral substance (usually harder than the surrounding rock or sediment). |
| ~ nugget | a solid lump of a precious metal (especially gold) as found in the earth. |
| ~ part, piece | a portion of a natural object.; "they analyzed the river into three parts"; "he needed a piece of granite" |
| v. (contact) | 5. chunk, lump | put together indiscriminately.; "lump together all the applicants" |
| ~ accumulate, collect, compile, amass, hoard, roll up, pile up | get or gather together.; "I am accumulating evidence for the man's unfaithfulness to his wife"; "She is amassing a lot of data for her thesis"; "She rolled up a small fortune" |
| v. (cognition) | 6. chunk, collocate, lump | group or chunk together in a certain order or place side by side. |
| ~ group | arrange into a group or groups.; "Can you group these shapes together?" |
| swelling | | |
| n. (shape) | 1. bulge, bump, excrescence, extrusion, gibbosity, gibbousness, hump, jut, prominence, protrusion, protuberance, swelling | something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings.; "the gun in his pocket made an obvious bulge"; "the hump of a camel"; "he stood on the rocky prominence"; "the occipital protuberance was well developed"; "the bony excrescence between its horns" |
| ~ frontal eminence | either prominence of the frontal bone above each orbit. |
| ~ occipital protuberance | prominence on the outer surface of the occipital bone. |
| ~ belly | a part that bulges deeply.; "the belly of a sail" |
| ~ caput | a headlike protuberance on an organ or structure.; "the caput humeri is the head of the humerus which fits into a cavity in the scapula" |
| ~ mogul | a bump on a ski slope. |
| ~ nub, nubble | a small lump or protuberance. |
| ~ snag | a sharp protuberance. |
| ~ wart | any small rounded protuberance (as on certain plants or animals). |
| ~ projection | any solid convex shape that juts out from something. |
| n. (process) | 2. intumescence, intumescency, swelling | the increase in volume of certain substances when they are heated (often accompanied by release of water). |
| ~ chemical action, chemical change, chemical process | (chemistry) any process determined by the atomic and molecular composition and structure of the substances involved. |
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