(a) To increase in size or volume (as by absorption of moisture); also, of a frog: grow larger, enlarge; make (earth) swell (by saturating it with water); (b) to increase in quantity, intensity, or force; ppl. swellinge, increasing in intensity.

(a) To move upward, spread upward; (b) of the sea, waves, a body of water, etc.: to rise above usual levels, well up; heave, become turbulent; ~ up; (c) ~ oute of, of blood: to well up out of (the body).

(a) To be or become corpulent or fat; also, fatten (the stomach); ppl. swollen, fat, corpulent; (b) of a bodily part: to protrude, bulge out; ppl.swollen, bloated or distended, bulging or protuberant.

Pathol. (a) Of a person, the body, a bodily part, or an animal: to become morbidly enlarged, as from poison, hunger, torture, wounding, disease, harmful humors, etc.; also, of an agent: cause (the body, a bodily part) to become pathologically enlarged, cause to swell; ben swollen, suffer morbid swelling; ppl. swellinge as adj.: becoming swollen or enlarged; ppl. swollen, pathologically enlarged, engorged, swollen; (b) of a wound or sore: to become morbidly enlarged; also fig.; siknesse swellinge, a swollen sore; ppl. swollen, enlarged, swollen; also, as noun: a swelling.

(a) Of the womb, abdomen: to dilate with pregnancy or supposed pregnancy, enlarge; of a person: become bloated in the abdomen (as if with pregnancy); (b) of the belly: to swell with intestinal gas, become flatulent; also, of food: produce intestinal gas, cause flatulence; swellinge metes, foods producing flatulence; (c) to be aroused sexually, be in rut; ppl. swollen as adj., of the genitals: tumescent; (d) of a giant: to heave with breathing; of the breast: swell (with sighs), heave; (e) of a part of the body: to become tumid or protuberant with violent emotion; ppl. swollen, distended, swollen.

Fig. (a) Of an emotion: to arise and grow; (b) of a person, a bird, one's heart or breast as the seat of emotion: to be afflicted with anger, sorrow, frustration, etc.; swell (for sorrow, on account of rage, with anger, etc.); ppl. swollen (swellinge), of the heart: afflicted with anger or sorrow; (c) of a person, the heart, mind, etc.: to puff up with pride, be overweening; swell (with pride); also, of knowledge: make (sb.) proud; ppl. swellinge, overweening; ppl. swollen, proud; swollen (with pride); (d) of the keeping of a secret: to swell (about one's heart), cause frustration; of the sight of a beloved: swell (in one's heart), cause fervid emotion; also, of the act of keeping silent: cause (one's breast) to swell with frustration.

To bring (sb.) to life, quicken.

?To become stiff; -- ?mistransl. of OF engordir.