swell
/swɛl/ verbo B1En español: hincharse, inflarse, hinchar, inflar
- To become larger, fuller, or rounder, or expand in size or shape, usually as a result of pressure from within. · My ankles had swelled in the heat.
- To cause to become bigger. · Rains and dissolving snow swell the rivers in spring.
- To grow gradually in force or loudness. · The organ music swelled.
- To cause to grow gradually in force or loudness.
- To raise to arrogance; to puff up; to inflate. · to be swelled with pride or haughtiness
- To be raised to arrogance.
- To be elated; to rise arrogantly.
- To be turgid, bombastic, or extravagant. · swelling words a swelling style
He/she/it swells · Pasado swelled · Participio pasado swollen · Forma en -ing swelling
Formas del verbo
- Forma base
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- He/she/it
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- Pasado
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- Participio pasado
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- Forma en -ing
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Phrasal verbs y expresiones
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Anne squirmed off the bed and sat rigidly on a chair beside it, her face swollen and tear-stained and her eyes fixed stubbornly on the floor.
When I saw you come into church last Sunday my heart swelled with pride to think you were my dearest friend.
Girls, sometimes I feel as if those exams meant everything, but when I look at the big buds swelling on those chestnut trees and the misty blue air at the end of the streets they don’t seem half so important.”
Darcy, “There is a very fine old saying, which everybody here is of course familiar with--‘Keep your breath to cool your porridge,’--and I shall keep mine to swell my song.”
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