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swell
adjective
1. Informal Excellent; wonderful: had a swell time.
2. Informal Fashionably elegant; stylish.
3. Socially prominent.
noun
1. A long wave on water that moves continuously without breaking.
2. A rise in the land; a rounded elevation.
3. A swollen part; a bulge or protuberance.
4. Informal One who is fashionably dressed or socially prominent: society swells.
5. Music A crescendo followed by a gradual diminuendo.
verb
1. To expand (as in size, volume, or numbers) gradually beyond a normal or original limit .
2. To become distended or puffed up .
3. To form a bulge or rounded elevation.
4. To become filled with pride and arrogance.
5. To behave or speak in a pompous, blustering, or self-important manner.
verb-intransitive
1. To be or become filled or puffed up, as with pride, arrogance, or anger.
2. To bulge out, as a sail.
3. To grow in loudness or intensity: "The din in front swelled to a tremendous chorus” ( Stephen Crane).
4. To increase in force, size, number, or degree: Membership in the club swelled.
5. To increase in size or volume as a result of internal pressure; expand.
verb-transitive
1. To fill with emotion.
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Top Words by points |
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swell | 8 |
Scrabble |
2 Letters | Scrabble® Points |
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el | 2 |
es | 2 |
ew | 5 |
we | 5 |
3 Letters | Scrabble® Points |
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ell | 3 |
els | 3 |
sel | 3 |
sew | 6 |
4 Letters | Scrabble® Points |
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ells | 4 |
sell | 4 |
slew | 7 |
well | 7 |
5 Letters | Scrabble® Points |
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swell | 8 |
wells | 8 |