anschwellen — meaning in English

English meaning

• swell verb To grow bigger, especially by filling with fluid or gas.
• swelling noun An area of the body that has become puffy or enlarged, usually from injury or illness.

Senses

anschwellen is used for these senses in English:

• puff up (intransitive) To swell due to injury or illness.
• swell The act of swelling; increase in size.
• swell (intransitive) To become bigger, especially due to being engorged.
• swell (transitive) To cause to grow gradually in force or loudness.
• swell (transitive) To raise to arrogance; to puff up; to inflate.
• swelling The state of being swollen.

swell — full definition

1. verb To grow bigger, especially by filling with fluid or gas.
2. verb To grow gradually in force, loudness, or intensity.
3. noun A long, rolling ocean wave that continues after the wind that made it has died down.
4. adj Excellent; very good (informal, dated-sounding).

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