| 单词 | swell |
| 释义 | swell (once / 143 pages) 1vn 2v 3vn 4adj 5n To swell is to expand or grow larger. If your brother's face started to swell after he ate lobster for the first time, you'd probably guess that he's allergic to shellfish. You can use the word swell to describe what happens to an injured body part, like a black eye that swells up, or in a figurative way, to describe a feeling of fullness, like when your heart swells with pride at your sister's big music performance. In the 1930s, swell became a popular slang term meaning great or excellent. But it also can describe a wealthy, elegant person, like a group of swells at a fancy restaurant. WORD FAMILYswell: swelled, swellest, swelling, swellingly, swells, swollen+/swelled: swelleder/swelling: swellings USAGE EXAMPLESHe peered up at the mess caused by the swollen substance. Wall Street Journal(Dec 29, 2016) Officials say anyone with symptoms should not attend school until five days after their glands swell. Washington Times(Dec 28, 2016) Six-foot tall in her heels, she lifted a finger and prodded my swollen cheek. The Guardian(Dec 27, 2016) 1 1v increase in size, magnitude, number, or intensity The music swelled to a crescendo Hyper increase become bigger or greater in amount 2v expand abnormally The bellies of the starving children are swelling Syn|Hypo|Hyper intumesce, swell up, tumefy, tumesce distend swell from or as if from internal pressure belly, belly outswell out or bulge out blow up, puff, puff out, puff upto swell or cause to enlarge, "Her faced puffed up from the drugs" bloatbecome bloated or swollen or puff up blister, vesicateget blistered expand become larger in size or volume or quantity 3v cause to become swollen The water swells the wood Hypo|Hyper bulge, bulk cause to bulge or swell outwards tumefycause to become very swollen bloatmake bloated or swollen distendcause to expand as it by internal pressure grow cause to grow or develop 4n a rounded elevation (especially one on an ocean floor) Hyper elevation, natural elevation a raised or elevated geological formation 5n a crescendo followed by a decrescendo 2Hyper crescendo (music) a gradual increase in loudness 1v come up (as of feelings and thoughts, or other ephemeral things) Smoke swelled from it Syn|Hyper well up arise, develop, grow, originate, rise, spring up, uprise come into existence; take on form or shape 2v become filled with pride, arrogance, or anger 3The mother was swelling with importance when she spoke of her son Syn|Hyper puff up act, behave, do behave in a certain manner; show a certain behavior; conduct or comport oneself 1v come up, as of a liquid Syn|Hyper well come up, rise, rise up, surface come to the surface 2n the undulating movement of the surface of the open sea 4Syn|Hypo|Hyper crestless wave ground swell, heavy 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) adj very good 5Syn bang-up, bully, corking, cracking, dandy, great, groovy, keen, neat, nifty, not bad, peachy, slap-up, smashing good having desirable or positive qualities especially those suitable for a thing specified n a man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance Syn|Exp|Hypo|Hyper beau, clotheshorse, dandy, dude, fashion plate, fop, gallant, sheik George Bryan Brummell English dandy who was a fashion leader during the Regency (1778-1840) cockscomb, coxcomb a conceited dandy who is overly impressed by his own accomplishments macaronia British dandy in the 18th century who affected Continental mannerisms adult male, man an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman) |
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