Modifying Another Word

• badly: Donald Roy managed to evade pursuit and walked five miles without stopping, his wounded foot badly swollen and without a shoe.

• severely: New patient Vince has been brought into the hospital with a temperature and severely swollen tongue.

• slightly: The skin appears red and slightly swollen and the burn is almost always painful.

• so: They were so swollen if I loosened the laces and left my shoes open they were still tight.

• extremely: There has been some literature claiming that hypertonic saline is of value when the membranes of the nose are extremely swollen.

• sometimes: I am not only itchy; it is very sore and sometimes swollen.

Preposition: with

• fluid: Liver function is affected, the abdomen becomes swollen with fluid increasing the risk of heart failure.

Modifies a noun

• ankle: Symptoms include a swollen, painful ankle with possible bruising due to ruptured blood vessels.

• gland: Paul Parry is expected to recover from swollen glands.

• tummy: His symptoms are lots of dirty diapers a day, swollen tummy and wind.

• tonsil: A sore throat with swollen tonsils that are heavily covered by a white coating.

• belly: She placed her hand against my very swollen belly.

• abdomen: This is indicated by the way the swollen abdomen tapers down to a distinct point.

Preposition: by

• rain: It is also remarkable, that this river is never swollen by rains, but often rises by the violence of the winds.

Used with adjective complement

• become: The ankles, for example, become swollen at some point during the disease in up to 90 % of children.

• appear: There she said that the bottom lip appeared swollen.

• look: There is also another spot with them that looks swollen like an ulcer.

• have: Jeff's ankle had swollen very badly which sadly put him out of action for the rest of the trip.

• get: When the bile ducts can get swollen the bile cannot get to the gall bladder.

• feel: Her thyroid, to the doctor's touch, feels smoothly swollen.