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Synonyms for swelling
ˈswɛl ɪŋswelling

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Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  1. swelling, puffiness, lumpnoun

    an abnormal protuberance or localized enlargement

    Synonyms:
    splashiness, stumblebum, jut, lubber, oaf, ostentation, lummox, inflation, excrescence, gibbosity, glob, ostentatiousness, bulge, hunk, chunk, ball, protrusion, clod, clump, pretentiousness, pompousness, intumescency, hump, pomposity, lout, lump, goon, gibbousness, bump, gawk, protuberance, extrusion, puffiness, prominence, intumescence

  2. bulge, bump, hump, swelling, gibbosity, gibbousness, jut, prominence, protuberance, protrusion, extrusion, excrescencenoun

    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"

    Synonyms:
    lump, expulsion, protrusion, prominence, gibbousness, jut, jutting, intumescence, extrusion, bulge, projection, protuberance, gibbosity, intumescency, bump, blow, puffiness, hump, excrescence

  3. intumescence, intumescency, swellingnoun

    the increase in volume of certain substances when they are heated (often accompanied by release of water)

    Synonyms:
    prominence, bump, puffiness, extrusion, intumescency, protrusion, jut, excrescence, protuberance, intumescence, gibbosity, gibbousness, hump, lump, bulge

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Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. swellingadjective

    Synonyms:
    bombastic, pompous, turgid, inflated, tumid, stilted, grandiloquent, pretentious, SPREAD-EAGLE, HIGHFALUTIN, sophomorical, high-flowing, high-sounding

  2. swellingnoun

    Synonyms:
    swell

  3. swellingnoun

    Synonyms:
    protuberance, bump

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. swellingadjective

    Synonyms:
    turgent, tumefacient, tumid, turgid, grandiloquent, bombastic, grandiose

  2. swellingnoun

    Synonyms:
    intumescence, turgescence, prominence, protuberance, bump, node, blain, distention

    Antonyms:
    subsidence, detumescence

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "swelling":

    edema, blowing, swell, bulge, inflammation, oedema, ballooning, inflation

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#36504ballooning
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#45824gawk
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#74471protrusion
#84309lout
#86009jutting
#105622clod
#106140jut
#110233puffiness
#118932ostentation
#164845pomposity
#175168pretentiousness
#180983protuberance
#194859lubber
#261561lummox

How to use swelling in a sentence?

  1. Andrew Schneider:

    Listen, can you hear it Spring's sweet cantata. The strains of grass pushing through the snow. The song of buds swelling on the vine. The tender timpani of a baby robin's heart. Spring.

  2. Vaagn Andikyan:

    When I first walked into the examination room, I found this 38-year-old malnourished patient with a weight of 350 pounds and extensive tumor that was about 100 centimeters [ 39 inches ] large. I saw fear in the patient's eyes. She was so hopeless, because she had seen several other doctors, and they were unable to help her, her legs were so swollen that she was unable to walk. I've seen leg swelling, but I've never seen leg swelling of this magnitude.

  3. Yoshiro Mori:

    What we're trying to avoid above all is swelling expenses that become a huge burden for the people of Japan.

  4. Ken MacQuarrie:

    During the physical attack Oisin Tymon was struck, resulting in swelling and bleeding to his lip.

  5. Ben Famiglietti:

    It helps reduce the swelling around the joint, and that's what I’m trying to improve: range of motion and stability.


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