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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, swelling, 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:
    swelling, 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, swelling, 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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#74471protrusion
#84309lout
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#105622clod
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#110233puffiness
#118932ostentation
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#175168pretentiousness
#180983protuberance
#194859lubber
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How to use swelling in a sentence?

  1. Whitney Bowe:

    Icing the area immediately following treatment is key--cold milk compresses are amazingly soothing, popping an Aleve or ibuprofen can decrease swelling and redness, but avoid Tylenol.If the redness lasts for longer than a few hours, be sure to tell your doctor so they can be more conservative with the settings at your next session.

  2. Ja Du:

    I think things that made no sense to most people make sense to us on an individual level in almost every person, like a swelling feeling you feel when you listen to dramatic music, it’s all sound and vibration but something in it relates to your soul on such a subconscious level that you connect with it, and [ that’s ] how I feel about the Filipino culture.

  3. Bhavya Reddy:

    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.

  4. Duncan Swift:

    The swelling 'piggy-bank' of supplier monies held by supermarkets exacerbates the risk of them making unwarranted deductions which causes suppliers financial distress.

  5. Joseph Abate:

    The fact that balances in these programs are swelling is an indication that money funds, non-U.S. official institutions, and the government state enterprises are struggling to find assets with returns above 0%, and as their cash holdings increase, they have few investment alternatives outside the Fed’s balance sheet.


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