Definition of Swelling

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Definition of Swelling
	Swelling of Swell The act of that which swells; as, the swelling of rivers in spring; the swelling of the breast with pride. A protuberance; a prominence an unnatural prominence or protuberance; as, a scrofulous swelling. Related Definitions: Act, An, As, In, Of, Or, Pride, Prominence, Protuberance, Scrofulous, Spring, Swell, Swelling, That, The, Unnatural, Which, With

Swelling Quotations

When I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing.
Woodrow Wilson

Every man who takes office in Washington either grows or swells, and when I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is growing or swelling.
Woodrow Wilson

There's a new medical crisis. Doctors are reporting that many men are having allergic reactions to latex condoms. They say they cause severe swelling. So what's the problem?
Phyllis Diller

Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk.
George MacDonald

As one gets older one sees many more paths that could be taken. Artists sense within their own work that kind of swelling of possibilities, which may seem a freedom or a confusion.
Jasper Johns

It is in war that the State really comes into its own: swelling in power, in number, in pride, in absolute dominion over the economy and the society.
Murray Rothbard

Whenever my body heals and the pain and all the swelling goes away is when I'll be ready.
Patrick Ewing

Swelling Translations

swelling in Dutch is pof, poef
swelling in French is foisonnement
swelling in German is anschwellend, Schwellung
swelling in Portuguese is inchamento

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