[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

swell \swell\, v. i. imp. swelled; p. p. swelled or
   swollen; p. pr.  vb. n. swelling. as. swellan; akin to
   d. zwellen, os.  ohg. swellan, g. schwellen, icel. svella,
   sw. svaumlla.
   1. to grow larger; to dilate or extend the exterior surface
      or dimensions, by matter added within, or by expansion of
      the inclosed substance; as, the legs swell in dropsy; a
      bruised part swells; a bladder swells by inflation.
      1913 webster

   2. to increase in size or extent by any addition; to increase
      in volume or force; as, a river swells, and overflows its
      banks; sounds swell or diminish.
      1913 webster

   3. to rise or be driven into waves or billows; to heave; as,
      in tempest, the ocean swells into waves.
      1913 webster

   4. to be puffed up or bloated; as, to swell with pride.
      1913 webster

            you swell at the tartan, as the bull is said to do
            at scarlet.                           --sir w.
                                                  scott.
      1913 webster

   5. to be inflated; to belly; as, the sails swell.
      1913 webster

   6. to be turgid, bombastic, or extravagant; as, swelling
      words; a swelling style.
      1913 webster

   7. to protuberate; to bulge out; as, a cask swells in the
      middle.
      1913 webster

   8. to be elated; to rise arrogantly.
      1913 webster

            your equal mind yet swells not into state. --dryden.
      1913 webster

   9. to grow upon the view; to become larger; to expand.
      "monarchs to behold the swelling scene" --shak.
      1913 webster

   10. to become larger in amount; as, many little debts added,
       swell to a great amount.
       1913 webster

   11. to act in a pompous, ostentatious, or arrogant manner; to
       strut; to look big.
       1913 webster

             here he comes, swelling like a turkey cock. --shak.
       1913 webster
see also:
swelled swollen swelling 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

swollen \swoll"en\,
   p. p. of swell.
   1913 webster
see also:
swell 

[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

swollen \swoll"en\, a.
   enlarged by swelling; immoderately increased; as, swollen
   eyes; swollen streams.
   1913 webster

[4] : WordNet (r) 2.0

swell
     adj : very good; "he did a bully job"; "a neat sports car"; "had a
           great time at the party"; "you look simply smashing"
           syn: bang-up, bully, corking, cracking, dandy,
            great, groovy, keen, neat, nifty, not
           badp, peachy, slap-up, smashing
     n 1: the undulating movement of the surface of the open sea syn:
           crestless wave
     2: a rounded elevation especially one on an ocean floor
     3: a crescendo followed by a decrescendo
     4: a man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance
        syn: dandy, dude, fop, gallant, sheik, beau,
        fashion plate, clotheshorse
     v 1: increase in size, magnitude, number, or intensity; "the
          music swelled to a crescendo"
     2: become filled with pride, arrogance, or anger; "the mother
        was swelling with importance when she spoke of her son"
        syn: puff up
     3: expand abnormally; "the bellies of the starving children are
        swelling" syn: swell up, intumesce, tumefy, tumesce
     4: as of feelings and thoughts, or other ephemeral things;
        "strong emotions welled up"; "smoke swelled from it" syn:
         well up
     5: come up; "tears well in her eyes" syn: well
     6: cause to become swollen; "the water swells the wood"
     also: swollen
see also:
bang-up bully corking cracking dandy great 
groovy keen neat nifty not badp 
peachy slap-up smashing crestless wave dude 
fop gallant sheik beau fashion plate 
clotheshorse puff up swell up intumesce tumefy 
tumesce well up well swollen 

[5] : WordNet (r) 2.0

swollen
     adj 1: abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas; "hungry
            children with bloated stomachs"; "he had a grossly
            distended stomach"; "eyes with puffed or puffy
            lids"; "swollen hands"; "tumescent tissue"; "puffy
            tumid flesh" syn: bloated, distended, puffed, puffy,
             tumescent, tumid, turgid
     2: abnormally expanded or increased in size; `swollen' is
        sometimes used in combination; "distended wineskins";
        "the need to clean out swollen inventories"; "the raisins
        were plump and soft and swollen from being soaked"; "huge
        blood-swollen mosquitoes" syn: distended
     3: characteristic of false pride; having an exaggerated sense
        of self-importance; "a conceited fool"; "an attitude of
        self-conceited arrogance"; "an egotistical disregard of
        others"; "so swollen by victory that he was unfit for
        normal duty"; "growing ever more swollen-headed and
        arbitrary"; "vain about her clothes" syn: conceited, egotistic,
         egotistical, self-conceited, swollen-headed, vain
     4: overfull with water; "swollen rivers and creeks" syn: flooding,
         in floodp, overflowing
see also:
bloated distended puffed puffy tumescent tumid 
turgid conceited egotistic egotistical self-conceited 
swollen-headed vain flooding in floodp overflowing 

[6] : WordNet (r) 2.0

swollen
     see swell
see also:
swell 

[7] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

194 moby thesaurus words for "swollen":
   sro, accelerated, adipose, aggrandized, amplified, augmented,
   aureate, beefed-up, beefy, bellied, big, big-bellied, bloated,
   bloated with pride, blown up, blowzy, bombastic, boosted, bosomy,
   brawny, brimful, brimming, broadened, bug-eyed, bulged, bulging,
   burly, bursting, buxom, capacity, chock-full, choked, chubby,
   chuck-full, chunky, congested, corpulent, cram-full, crammed,
   crowded, deepened, dilated, distended, drenched, dropsical, dumpy,
   edematous, elated, elevated, enchymatous, enhanced, enlarged,
   euphuistic, exophthalmic, expanded, extended, extravagant, farci,
   fat, fattish, filled, filled to overflowing, flatulent, fleshy,
   flowery, flush, flushed, flushed with pride, formal, full,
   full to bursting, fustian, gassy, glutted, goggle, goggled, gorged,
   grandiloquent, gross, heavyset, hefty, heightened, high-flown,
   high-swelling, highfalutin, highfaluting, hiked, hippy, hyperemic,
   hypertrophied, imposing, in spate, incrassate, increased, inflated,
   intensified, jam-packed, jammed, jazzed up, lusty, magnified,
   magniloquent, meaty, mouthy, multiplied, obese, outsized,
   overblown, overburdened, overcharged, overfed, overflowing,
   overfraught, overfreighted, overfull, overladen, overloaded,
   oversized, overstocked, overstuffed, oversupplied, overweight,
   overweighted, packed, packed like sardines, paunchy, plenary,
   plethoric, plump, podgy, pompous, pontifical, popeyed, portly,
   potbellied, pouched, pretentious, proliferated, proud, pudgy,
   puffed up, puffy, pursy, raised, ready to burst, reinforced,
   replete, roly-poly, rotund, round, running over, satiated,
   saturated, self-important, soaked, solemn, spread, square, squat,
   squatty, stalwart, standing room only, stiffened, stilted, stocky,
   stout, strapping, strengthened, stuffed, stuffed up, stuffy,
   supercharged, supersaturated, surcharged, surfeited, swelled,
   swelling, tall, thick-bodied, thickset, tightened, top-heavy,
   topful, tubby, tumescent, tumid, tumorous, turgescent, turgid,
   ventose, ventricose, well-fed, widened, windy

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