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Synonym of Swelling

Swelling Synonyme from Moby Thesaurus

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swelling
Synonyms and related words:
abscess, access, accession, accretion, accrual, accruement, accumulation, addition, advance, aggrandizement, amplification, aposteme, appreciation, ascent, augmentation, aureate, bagging, baggy, ballooning, bed sore, bellying, billowing, billowy, blain, bleb, blister, bloat, bloated, bloatedness, bloating, blowing up, boil, bombastic, boom, boost, bosomy, breaking point, broadening, bubo, buildup, bulbose, bulbous, bulge, bulging, bulla, bump, bumped, bumpy, bunched, bunchy, bunion, canker, canker sore, carbuncle, chancre, chancroid, chilblain, cold sore, corn, crescendo, crescendoing, crescent, cyst, development, diastole, dilatation, dilation, distended, distension, dropsy, edema, elevation, enlargement, eschar, euphuistic, excrescence, expanding, expansion, extension, extreme tension, felon, fester, festering, fever blister, fistula, flatulence, flatulency, flatulent, flatus, flood, flowery, fullness, furuncle, furunculus, fustian, gain, gassiness, gassy, gathering, grandiloquent, greatening, growing, growth, gumboil, gush, hemorrhoids, hike, hillocky, hummocky, increase, increasing, increment, incremental, inflated, inflation, intensifying, intensity, intumescence, jump, kibe, leap, lengthening, lesion, loudishness, loudness, lump, magniloquent, meteorism, mounting, mouthy, moutonnee, multiplication, multiplying, node, nodule, on the increase, overdistension, overdrawing, overexpansion, overextension, overstrain, overstraining, overstretching, papula, papule, paronychia, parulis, petechia, piles, pimple, pneumatic, pock, polyp, potbellied, pouching, productiveness, proliferating, proliferation, prominence, protrusion, protuberance, puff, puffiness, puffing, pustule, raise, rise, rising, rounded, scab, sebaceous cyst, snapping point, snowballing, soft chancre, sonority, sonorousness, sore, spread, spreading, stigma, strain, straining, stretch, stretching, sty, suppuration, surge, surge of sound, swell, swellage, swollen, swollenness, tension, tightening, tubercle, tumefaction, tumescence, tumescent, tumid, tumidity, tumidness, tumor, turgescence, turgescency, turgescent, turgid, turgidity, turgidness, tympanism, tympany, ulcer, ulceration, up, upping, upsurge, upswing, uptrend, upturn, verrucated, verrucose, volume, wale, warty, waxing, welt, wen, wheal, whelk, whitlow, widening, windiness, windy, wound|
  

  



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WordNet 2.0
swelling

Noun
1. abnormal protuberance or localized enlargement
(synonym) puffiness, lump
(hypernym) symptom
(hyponym) spermatocele
(derivation) swell, swell up, intumesce, tumefy, tumesce
2. the swelling of certain substances when they are heated (often accompanied by release of water)
(synonym) intumescence, intumescency
(hypernym) chemical process, chemical change, chemical action

Adjective
1. becoming puffy as from internal bleeding or accumulation of other fluids; "put ice on the swelling ankle"
(similar) injured


swell

Noun
1. the undulating movement of the surface of the open sea
(synonym) crestless wave
(hypernym) wave, moving ridge
(hyponym) ground swell, heavy swell
2. a rounded elevation (especially one on an ocean floor)
(hypernym) natural elevation, elevation
3. a crescendo followed by a decrescendo
(hypernym) crescendo
4. a man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance
(synonym) dandy, dude, fop, gallant, sheik, beau, fashion plate, clotheshorse
(hypernym) man, adult male
(hyponym) coxcomb, cockscomb

Verb
1. increase in size, magnitude, number, or intensity; "The music swelled to a crescendo"
(hypernym) increase
2. become filled with pride, arrogance, or anger; "The mother was swelling with importance when she spoke of her son"
(synonym) puff up
(hypernym) act, behave, do
3. expand abnormally; "The bellies of the starving children are swelling"
(synonym) swell up, intumesce, tumefy, tumesce
(hypernym) expand
(hyponym) distend
(derivation) swelling, puffiness, lump
4. as of feelings and thoughts, or other ephemeral things; "Strong emotions welled up"; "Smoke swelled from it"
(synonym) well up
(hypernym) originate, arise, rise, develop, uprise, spring up, grow
5. come up; "Tears well in her eyes"
(synonym) well
(hypernym) surface, come up, rise up, rise
6. cause to become swollen; "The water swells the wood"
(hypernym) grow
(hyponym) bulge, bulk
(cause) swell up, intumesce, tumefy, tumesce

Adjective
1. very good; "he did a bully job"; "a neat sports car"; "had a great time at the party"; "you look simply smashing"
(synonym) bang-up, bully, corking, cracking, dandy, great, groovy, keen, neat, nifty, not bad(p), peachy, slap-up, smashing
(similar) good
(classification) colloquialism

 



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