LekhoriLekhoriTo become bigger, especially due to being engorged.
O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention, A kingdom for a stage, princes to act And monarchs to behold the swelling scene!
To cause to become bigger.
Rains and dissolving snow swell the rivers in spring.
To grow gradually in force or loudness.
The organ music swelled.
The act of swelling; increase in size.
A bulge or protuberance.
Increase of power in style, or of rhetorical force.
Concentrated are his arguments, select and distinct and orderly his topics, ready and unfastidious his expressions, popular his allusions, plain his illustrations, easy the swell and subsidence of his periods […]
Fashionable, like a swell or dandy.
We pay the express, $5 a day our new agents are making and wearing the swellest clothes besides; old agents after one season make twice as much.
Excellent.
...you are my devoted friend too. You do more and work harder and oh shit I'd get maudlin about how damned swell you are. My god I'd like to see you... You're a hell of a good guy.
Very well.
“That lousy ring wasn’t worth no grand. I did swell to get two centuries for it.”
From Middle English swellen, from Old English swellan (“to swell”), from Proto-West Germanic *swellan, from Proto-Germanic *swellaną (“to swell”), of unknown origin. Cognate with Saterland Frisian swä...
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