What is another word for swelling?
Synonyms for swelling
ˈswɛl ɪŋswelling
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Princeton's WordNet
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, intumescencebulge, 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, excrescenceintumescence, 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 Synonymes
swellingadjective
Synonyms:
bombastic, pompous, turgid, inflated, tumid, stilted, grandiloquent, pretentious, SPREAD-EAGLE, HIGHFALUTIN, sophomorical, high-flowing, high-soundingswellingnoun
Synonyms:
swellswellingnoun
Synonyms:
protuberance, bump
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
swellingadjective
Synonyms:
turgent, tumefacient, tumid, turgid, grandiloquent, bombastic, grandioseswellingnoun
Synonyms:
intumescence, turgescence, prominence, protuberance, bump, node, blain, distentionAntonyms:
subsidence, detumescence
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "swelling":
edema, blowing, swell, bulge, inflammation, oedema, ballooning, inflation
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#1887 | ball | |
#2540 | blow | |
#5750 | projection | |
#6943 | inflation | |
#9252 | blowing | |
#10588 | bump | |
#13853 | inflammation | |
#13952 | lump | |
#15156 | hunk | |
#15289 | swelling | |
#15846 | chunk | |
#16522 | swell | |
#23638 | expulsion | |
#25645 | prominence | |
#27710 | extrusion | |
#28274 | bulge | |
#28424 | edema | |
#29554 | hump | |
#36504 | ballooning | |
#40884 | glob | |
#45824 | gawk | |
#47189 | goon | |
#48942 | clump | |
#67630 | oaf | |
#71525 | oedema | |
#74471 | protrusion | |
#84309 | lout | |
#86009 | jutting | |
#105622 | clod | |
#106140 | jut | |
#110233 | puffiness | |
#118932 | ostentation | |
#164845 | pomposity | |
#175168 | pretentiousness | |
#180983 | protuberance | |
#194859 | lubber | |
#261561 | lummox |
How to use swelling in a sentence?
We document every single patient where The Covid vaccine was. So I see a mammogram come up, and the woman had a vaccine in her right arm, and she has asymmetrically enlarged lymph nodes in the right armpit, I put a statement in to the patient and her doctor and I say,' This is a normal response to the vaccine. If you have any clinical concerns, if you can feel the swelling, it gets worse, if you have any concerns, see your doctor. You can always do more evaluation,'.
Seventy-two holes, playing with no pain, no swelling, nothing like that, then we knew that, 'OK, you're ready to go.' And if I hadn't have passed that test, I wouldn't have been here.
Once he started to recover( from Covid) his face started to swell, when the swelling did not reduce,( doctors) told us to get the injection.
You could see the swelling on his face, you could tell that his face had a lot of bleeding. He looked, like I said, like he was passed out maybe, or in and out of consciousness or something.
The swelling 'piggy-bank' of supplier monies held by supermarkets exacerbates the risk of them making unwarranted deductions which causes suppliers financial distress.
Translations for swelling
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- تورمArabic
- otokCzech
- Anschwellung, Anschwellen, SchwellungGerman
- hinchazón, inflamaciónSpanish
- ورمPersian
- gonflementFrench
- atIrish
- atadhScottish Gaelic
- सूजनHindi
- ուռուցք, այտուցվածություն, այտուցArmenian
- gnocco, gonfioreItalian
- はれ, ふくれ, はれものJapanese
- tumiditās, tumorLatin
- pauku, uruhumuMāori
- پړسوب, غومبهPashto, Pushto
- umflăturăRomanian
- опухоль, опухание, припухлостьRussian
- வீக்கம்Tamil
- వాపుTelugu
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