English English Dictionary
- swell in English:
1. 
to become bigger or rounder
English word "swell"(to become bigger or rounder) occurs in sets:
vocab pre ib december2. 
to get bigger
3. swelled
The cheers swelled to a roar.
The turnover on the Tokyo stock Exchange swelled to the year's record.
Thanks to a fundamental restructuring, our surplus has swelled three-fold.
A gust of wind swelled the sails.
The membership of the Boy Scout troop swelled.
In the 19th century, the number of immigrants swelled rapidly.
Our surplus has swelled by nearly ten percent in this quarter.
4. increase
The prices increased.
Although an increase of unmarried mothers is needed in order to escape the declining birth rate for some reason public opinion in Japan is avoiding this argument.
The report from the National Development and Reform Committee says that the advance in rural high-speed telecommunication infrastructure is the main reason for the increase in Internet users.
Translating sentences one by one is too slow for you? You want to increase your rank in Tatoeba, or the rank of your language, at the speed of light? So this is for you!
It's just if we have it every day we're bound to get fed up with it. I must increase the variety of my cooking.
Yesterday my brother went to Fukushima to help the inhabitants. I'm afraid that the radiation will increase.
This may be because of a change in people's attitude toward marriage and the sharp increase of fast food restaurants and convenience stores which are open 24 hours a day and enable young people to live more easily.
When I reached the hall right away the person in charge unrelentingly said things like "This painting is certain to increase in value in the future," and I went and signed the contract.
In China, there is a large number of characters, so the goal of the character simplification was to replace the complex traditional characters with easy to remember simplified characters and increase the literacy rate.
The Chinese government has spent a lot of money on research into successful panda breeding in order to increase their birth rate.
This extraordinary increase is explained by the speedy economic unification which took place during the same period.
Our firm is a giant one, and there are some rules and regulations, which should be revised or rescinded to reduce red tape and increase efficiency.
increase by - wzrasta o. Exports of computers have increased by 15% since January. / increase in: The club has been increasing in popularity. / increase with: The chances of having twins increase with a mother’s age. / → Opposite - decrease
Apart from gold; customers may ask for their avatar’s skill level to increase; or for a virtual magic sword.
5. wave
In the United States, a wave means "good bye."
We're in the second week of an unrelenting heat wave.
She designated their table with a wave of the hand.
wave your hands
The LDP rode on the wave of Koizumi's popularity.
What Jansky had observed was the 14.6m wavelength radio wave from the Milky Way's core.
We're suffering from an unbearable heat wave for the second week straight.
Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave o'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?
Quite a few people were killed on the cold wave that hit this area.
History is like Quantum Physics, the observer affects the event observed. Is the Kennedy assasination a particle or a wave?
I waved to/at him from the window but he didn't see me. She waves her hands about/around a lot when she's talking.
The little boy waved to his mother as the school bus pulled away from the curb.
I love the sea in winter when the waves are enormous.
You can go to Hawaii if you want to ride on large waves.
At the border the customs officer just waved us through.
English word "swell"(wave) occurs in sets:
weather 2, words meaning6. to become larger
7. swell swelled swollen
English word "swell"(swell swelled swollen) occurs in sets:
Sep 21 (5) Irregular Verbes 2021_06_208. swelled swollen
English word "swell"(swelled swollen) occurs in sets:
czasowniki nieregularne9. swollen
My gums are swollen.
In cold weather, her joints become swollen.
Your feet are swollen because your shoes are too small.
1. My leg is swollen and bleeding. / 2. You should have a black eye or a swollen lip, a broken nose. / 3. It's all right, just a little swollen. / 4. Look, my feet are all swollen.
I drank too much. My face is swollen!
My hamster has a swollen testicle on one side.
My hands became swollen up while taking a long bath.
But when I think of that dream, the swollen dead bodies under the water pulling at my legs, it seems right that friends should come and go.
swollen glands
The middle and forefinger were fused into a nail-less stump and the back of the hand grossly swollen.
Your hand is swollen, did you have fight with somebody?
She fell over when she was training and now her ankle is really swollen
My finger is swollen because I smashed it in the door
Her wrist looks very swollen – perhaps it’s broken.
I went to see the river, which I found greatly swollen.
other words beginning with "S"
sweep in Englishsweet in English
sweets in English
swim in English
swimming in English
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