swell
/swɛl/ verbe B1En français : gonfler, enfler
- 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 · Prétérit swelled · Participe passé swollen · Forme en -ing swelling
Formes du verbe
- Forme de base
- swell
- He/she/it
- swells
- Prétérit
- swelled
- Participe passé
- swollen
- Forme en -ing
- swelling
Un verbe irrégulier : apprenez par cœur son prétérit et son participe passé.
Verbes à particule et expressions
Dans la bibliothèque
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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