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swol·len (swōl′ən)
intransitive verb, transitive verb
adjective
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Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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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.
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.
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.
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We live in the great indoors: the vacuum cleaner grazes over the carpet, lowing, its udder a swollen wobble. SeeAusten 43:88.
You see how when rivers are swollen in winter those trees that yield to the flood retain their branches, but those that offer resistance perish, trunk and all.
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