Swollen Definition

swōlən
adjective
Expanded by or as if by internal pressure; distended.
A swollen toe.
American Heritage Medicine
Increased in volume or size, as from inner pressure; blown up; distended; bulging.
Webster's New World
Overblown; bombastic.
Swollen rhetoric.
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Distended.

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Swell.

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Swollen Sentence Examples

  • Her feet felt swollen and fiery.

  • He touched his swollen lip.

  • Half an hour later, her eyes swollen and her chest sore from sobbing, she turned her face up to the warm water in the shower.

  • The large man gasped for air, his eye swollen already.

  • Mrs. Marsh's face was white, and her eyes red and swollen, with dark circles under them.

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