Definition of Swollen

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Definition of Swollen
	Swollen of Swell p. p. of Swell. Enlarged by swelling; immoderately increased; as, swollen eyes; swollen streams. Related Definitions: As, By, Enlarged, Immoderately, Increased, Of, Swell, Swelling, Swollen

Swollen Quotations

Swollen in head, weak in legs, sharp in tongue but empty in belly.
Mao Tse-Tung

Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.
Francis Bacon

When I got back to my father and mother and was sitting up there in our tepee, my face was still all puffed and my legs and arms were badly swollen; but I felt good all over and wanted to get right up and run around.
Black Elk

Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.
David Herbert Lawrence

Undernourished, intelligence becomes like the bloated belly of a starving child: swollen, filled with nothing the body can use.
Andrea Dworkin

I don't think I ever had a swollen head: I remember where I come from.
Eva Herzigova

Swollen Translations

swollen in German is angeschwollen, verschwollen
swollen in Hungarian is duzzaszt, megnagyobbodik, megduzzadt, puffaszt
swollen in Italian is gonfiezza
swollen in Latin is inflatus
swollen in Spanish is turgente, hinchado

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