Swelling

Definition: Swelling

Swelling

Adjective

1. Becoming puffy as from internal bleeding or accumulation of other fluids; "put ice on the swelling ankle".

Noun

1. Abnormal protuberance or localized enlargement.

2. The swelling of certain substances when they are heated (often accompanied by release of water).

Date "swelling" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Domain	Definition
Bible	Swelling of Jordan (Jer. 12:5), literally the "pride" of Jordan (as in R.V.), i.e., the luxuriant thickets of tamarisks, poplars, reeds, etc., which were the lair of lions and other beasts of prey. The reference is not to the overflowing of the river banks. (Comp. 49:19; 50:44; Zech. 11:3). Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary.
Dream Interpretation	To dream that you see yourself swollen, denotes that you will amass fortune, but your egotism will interfere with your enjoyment. To see others swollen, foretells that advancement will meet with envious obstructions. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted ....
Industry	Overall increase in size. Source: European Union. (references)
Medicine	An enlargement, elevation or protuberance, usually associated with a disease process. Source: European Union. (references)
Nuclear Energy & Physics	Changes in the density and volume of materials due to neutron irradiation. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Swelling

Synonyms: intumescence (n), intumescency (n), lump (n), puffiness (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Convexity	Convexity, prominence, projection, swelling, gibbosity, bilge, bulge, protuberance, protrusion; camber, cahot, thank-ye-ma'am. swell.
Excitation	Exciting, absorbing, riveting, distracting; Verb: impressive, warm, glowing, fervid, swelling, imposing, spirit-stirring, thrilling; high-wrought; soul-stirring, soul-subduing; heart-stirring, heart-swelling, heart-thrilling; agonizing; (painful); telling, sensational, hysterical; overpowering, overwhelming; more than flesh and blood can bear; yellow.
Expansion	Noun: expansion; increase; of size; enlargement, extension, augmentation; amplification, ampliation; aggrandizement, spread, increment, growth, development, pullulation, swell, dilation, rarefaction; turgescence, turgidness, turgidity; dispansion; obesity; (size); hydrocephalus, hydrophthalmus; dropsy, tumefaction, intumescence, swelling, tumor, diastole, distension; puffing, puffiness; inflation; pandiculation.
Feeling	Phrase: the heart big, the heart full, the heart swelling, the heart beating, the heart pulsating, the heart throbbing, the heart thumping, the heart beating high, the heart melting, the heart overflowing, the heart bursting, the heart breaking; the heart goes out, a heart as big as all outdoors (sympathy).
	Impressive, deep, profound, indelible; deep felt, home felt, heartfelt; swelling, soul-stirring, deep-mouthed, heart-expanding, electric, thrilling, rapturous, ecstatic.
Ornament	Adjective: ornament; Verb: beautified; ornate, florid, rich, flowery; euphuistic, euphemistic; sonorous; high-sounding, big-sounding; inflated, swelling, tumid; turgid, turgescent; pedantic, pompous, stilted; orotund; high flown, high flowing; sententious, rhetorical, declamatory; grandiose; grandiloquent, magniloquent, altiloquent; sesquipedal, sesquipedalian; Johnsonian, mouthy; bombastic; fustian; frothy, flashy, flaming.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	He'll be a lot quieter when that swelling goes down. (Charro!; writing credit: Frederick Louis Fox; Charles Marquis Warren) Keep icing your front bum. Swelling continues if you don't ice! (Get Over It; writing credit: R. Lee Fleming Jr.)
Lyrics	Speak to me, don't mislead me, the calm I feel means a storm is swelling; (Trouble Me; performing artist: 10,000 Maniacs) The walls run high, to veil a swelling tear (Talk To Me; performing artist: Stevie Nicks; writing credit: C. Sandford)
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Domain	Title
References	The World Market for Corn Flakes and Other Prepared Foods Obtained by the Swelling or Roasting of Cereals or Cereal Products: A 2004 Global Trade Perspective (reference) (more reference examples)

Books	Eb-sGoldie & the rhino : the incredible, shrinking, swelling, golden magical elephant (reference) Mechanics of swelling : from clays to living cells and tissues (reference) Physical aspects of swelling clay soils; papers and summarized discussions of a symposium held February 1972 (reference) Shales and swelling soils (reference) Swelling soils : 4 reports prepared for the 54th annual meeting of the Transportation Research Board (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	Fruit Is Swelling (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)
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	After the incubation period of 2-6 days, symptoms of the plague appear including severe malaise, headache, shaking chills, fever, and pain and swelling, or adenopathy, in the affected regional lymph nodes, also known as buboes. Credit: CDC.		Buboes are due to the swelling of lymph nodes after they've absorbed infective material as seen here in a case of plague. Credit: CDC.
	Clinical appearance of eyes in trichinosis. Patient had periorbital swelling, muscle pain, diarrhea, and 28% eosinophils. Credit: CDC.		Actinomyces sp. normally found in the oral cavity is an opportunistic pathogen usually seen only in immunosuppressed patients. Lesions involve long standing swelling, suppuration and the formation of an abscess or granuloma. Credit: CDC.
	Women in war. Agricultural workers. With the nation's manpower swelling the ranks of the armed forces, women must step into many new occupations in both urban and rural life. These women harvest hands in Rochelle, Illinois, are helping the national welfar. Credit: Library of Congress.
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Author	Quotation
G. Macdonald	Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk.
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Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	Such words have the mysterious and wonderful property of swelling the bill in the morning.
Grapes of Wrath	Steinbeck, John	Then the first tendrils of the grapes swelling from the old gnarled vines, cascade down to cover the trunks.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Ice packs to help reduce swelling. (references)
		New or unusual lumps, bumps, or swelling. (references)
		You can keep the swelling from getting worse. (references)
Economic History	Turkey	Soybean demand will continue to grow due to the swelling demand for protein meals utilized by the poultry and livestock industries. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
Lyndon B. Johnson	1963-1969	This kind of society will not flower spontaneously from swelling riches and surging power.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Swelling" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 58.42% of the time. "Swelling" is used about 291 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (-ing form)	58.42%	170	23,898
Noun (singular)	30.24%	88	35,154
Adjective (general or positive)	9.97%	29	64,444
Noun (proper)	1.37%	4	175,879
Total	100.00%	291	N/A

The following table summarizes names derived from the word "swelling".
Name	Gender	Language	Meaning
Ziya	N/A	Arabic	Swelling
Tappuah	N/A	Biblical	Swelling
Zia	N/A	Biblical	Swelling
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "swelling": hunger swelling ♦ irradiation swelling ♦ Mitochondrial Swelling ♦ Swelling (fluid in tissues) ♦ swelling deficit ♦ Swelling under skin and between muscles ♦ the river is swelling ♦ white swelling. Additional references.
Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "swelling": dial-a-swelling, heart-swelling, High-swelling, non-swelling, tongue-swelling.
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Language		Translations for "swelling"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		zmadhim (aggrandizement, amplification, augment, enhancement, enlargement, exaggeration, increase, magnification, overstatement, power, rise), xhungë (boss, bulge, bump, excrescence, gall, gallnut, glandule, hump, hunch, knob, knur, knurr, lump, node, nub, overgrowth, protuberance, tuber, tubercle), vend i ënjtur, përmbytje (antediluvian, cataclysm, deluge, flood, flooding, flowing, inundation, overflow, spate, submergence), lungë (abscess, boil, carbuncle, warble), lartësi (altitude, altitudes, elevation, eminence, headway, height, highness, Hill, inches, level, loftiness, pitch, rise, stature, superiority, swell), gungë (boss, bump, gibbosity, hummock, hump, hunch, knob, knot, knur, knurl, knurr, node, nub, overgrowth, promontory, protuberance, swell, tuber, tubercle, tumefaction), e ngritur (lift, offset, protuberance, rib, uprise), dallgëzim (swell, undulation), bregore (hillock, hummock), ënjtje (edema, intumescence, tumefaction, tumescence). (various references)

Arabic		‏مفعم بالغرور (vainglorious), ‏منتفخ (baggy, bloat, bloated, blown, bulging, bulgy, distended, full, inflated, overblown, puffed, puffy, swollen), ‏محني (bent), ‏متكبر (arrogant, conceited, haughty, insolent, lofty, lordly, proud, snooty, supercilious, swank, upstage), ‏متورم (inflated, puffed up, swollen, tumescent, turgid), ‏متسم بالأبهة (pompous), ‏متزايد (growing, increasing, mounting, rising), ‏متعجرف (arrogant, cavalier, conceited, haughty, imperious, lordly, overbearing, overproud, overweening, presuming, presumptuous, puffed up, puffy, stuffy, supercilious), ‏ورم (bulge, bump, growth, lump, neoplasm, node, swell, tumefaction, tumid, tumor, tumour), ‏تورم (become swollen, swell, tumefaction, tumefy, tumescence), ‏ضخامة (bigness, enormity, exuberance, generosity, greatness, immenseness, immensity, largeness, massiveness, monstrosity, size, vastness), ‏إنتفاخ (bulge, distention, puffiness, swell, tumescence), ‏رنان (metallic, orotund, pompous, pretentious, puffy, resonant, ringing, sonorous, sounding, vibrant). (various references)

Bulgarian		увеличение (accession, accretion, amplification, blowup, enlargement, expansion, gain, increase, increment, magnification, progress, rising), разширение (amplification, bulb, continuation, distention, expanse, expansion, extension), тумор (gibbosity, neoplasm, tuber, tubercle, tumor, tumour), възвишение (eminence, height, prominence, rise, rising, swell, tor, upland), оток (intumescence, oedema, protuberance, tumefaction, tumor, tumour), отичане (intumescence, tumefaction), надут (bombastic, conceited, consequential, coxcombical, declamatory, florid, grandiloquent, haughty, high-blown, highfaluting, important, inflated, magniloquent, mandarin, mouthy, orotund, overblown, pompous, portentous, prancing, puffy, sidy, solemn, sounding, stilted, swollen, theatrical, tumid, uppish, uppity), могила (hillock, hump, mound), подутина (bump, gibbosity, lump, promontory, protuberance, swell, tumefaction), подуване (intumescence, tumefaction, tumescence), изпъкналост (bulge, burr, camber, convexity, jut, knap, knob, lobe, projection, prominence, protrusion, protuberance, salience, umbo), изпъкнал (bossy, bulging, bunchy, convex, eminent, goggle, outstanding, projecting, projective, prominent, protruding, protrusive, protuberant, salient), издутина (bulge, protuberance, salience), издут (bagged, bladdery, bulging, convex, full, gibbous, gorged, prominent, protrusive, protuberant, tumid), издаден (bold, outstanding, pendent, prognathous, projecting, projective, prominent, protrusive, protuberant, salient, swollen). (various references)

Chinese		膨胀 (Dilatation, Dilate, Dilated, Dilating, Distension, inflate, inflated, Inflating, swell). (various references)

Czech		vyvýšenina (elevation, hump), otok (Edema, intumescence, tumefaction), opuchlina. (various references)

Danish		swelling (dilatation, dilation, to swell), svulmen (tumefaction), udvidelse (expansion), tumefaktion (tumefaction), opsvulmning (irradiation swelling), opsvulmen (swell, tumefaction), kvældning, haevning (increase in volume), hævelse (intumescence, tumefaction), bule (boil, bruise, bulge, bump, deformation, dent, dimple). (various references)

Dutch		pof (puff), poef (puff). (various references)

Esperanto		pufo (puff). (various references)

Finnish		turpoaminen, paisuminen (blowing, cheese blowing, dilatation, dilation, to swell). (various references)

French		tuméfaction, gonflement (swell), foisonnement (swell). (various references)

German		Schwellung (bulge, tumescence, tumidity), quellen (founts, issue, ooze, pour, sources, spring, springs, stream, swell, well, wellsprings), anschwellung (bulge, bulge in the wall, tumefaction), anschwellend. (various references)

Greek		πρήξιμο (protuberance, protuberancy, tumescence, tumor, tumour). (various references)

Hebrew		תפיחות (puffiness, tumefaction, tumescence, tumidity), תפיח�" (lump, protuberance, swell, tumefaction), תפח, �"ת� פחות (boasting, distention, inflating, puffing up, swell), �'אות (boom, boon, flood tide, flow, flux, glory, high tide, majesty, pride, swell, tide), בטבוט (tumescence), צבות, � פיחות (tumefaction, tumidity). (various references)

Hungarian		duzzanat (bulge, excrescence, tumescence, tympany), duzzadó. (various references)

Indonesian		pembengkakan (expansion), gembungan, abuh (swollen). (various references)

Italian		tumefazione (tumefaction), rigonfiamento (buckle, bulge, heave, swell). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		膨張 (expansion, growth, increase), 膨大 (bulky, enormous, expansion, extensive, huge). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ぼう� い (bulky, enormous, expansion, extensive, huge, subtitle), はれもの (tumor), よい�" (lingering memory, reverberation, trailing note), もりもり (gusto, someone full of zest), むくみ (edema), �"り (foxes and badgers, hardening, purification, sly fellow, stiffness), �"ぶ (bump, devil's apron, encouragement, inspiration, kelp, lump, protuberance, sea tang), はれ (boil, clear weather), ふくらみ (bulge, puff), た�"�"ぶ (bump, lump, protuberance), ぼうちょう (attendance, auditing, counterespionage, counterintelligence, expansion, growth, hearing, increase, listening, protection against the tide), しゅ� い (motif, subject, the opening phrase of a letter or notice, theme), しゅちょう (advocacy, assertion, chief, claim, contention, emphasis, head, insistence, keynote, main current, main melody, opinion, request, tenet), しゅもつ (tumor), し�"り (hardening, stiffness), そしょう (boil, lawsuit, litigation), ふしゅ (edema). (various references)

Korean		팽윤. (various references)

Manx		lane (at full strength, crowded, fraught, full, full-blooded, fully, gravid, loaded, lot, much, plenary, replete, sound, total, unexpurgated, unexpurgated as edition), boal (wall). (various references)

Pig Latin		ellingsway

Portuguese		tumefação (tumefaction), inchamento (swell), inchação (lump, puff), dilatação (dilatation, distension, expanse, expansion, flare, swell). (various references)

Romanian		umflãturã (boss, bulge, caruncle, core, excrescence, gibbosity, lump, misgrowth, puff, tumor, tumour), tumoare (growth, tumor, tumour, Wen), burduşealã (bloatedness), bulbucãturã (bulge), bubã (abscess, boil, bruise, drawback, hindrance, puff, sorrow, trouble, ulcer). (various references)

Russian		распухание (intumescence), вспучивание, выпуклость (bulge, bump, camber, convex, convexity, crowning, gibbosity, knob, protuberance, proturberance, salience, saliency, swell), опухоль (bump, glandule, lump, neoplasm, new growth, protuberance, swell, tumescence, tumor, tumour), опухание (intumescence, tumefaction), набухание (erection, glandule, tumefaction), местная припухлость, бучение, припухание (tumefaction), припухлость (intumescence). (various references)

Scottish		bochuin. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		otok (intumescence, oedema, tumefaction, tumescence), oteklina (tumor, tumour). (various references)

Spanish		hinchazón (flatulence, flatulency, lump, puff, puffiness), tumefacción (tumefaction), chichón (bump). (various references)

Swedish		svällande (distension, distention, plethoric, puffed up, swell, turgescent), ansvällning (upsurge). (various references)

Turkish		yumru (bump, concretion, cupola, excrescence, gallnut, knob, knot, knurl, lump, node, nodule, nub, nubble, protuberance, torus, tuber, tuberose, tuberosity, tuberous, wart), yükseltme (aggrandizement, boost, elevation, exaltation, lift, promotion, strengthening, superelevation), yükselme (advance, advancement, ascension, ascent, climb, distinction, escalation, flux, gain, hike, increase, pickup, preferment, progress, promotion, promotional, raise, rise, rising, scaling, step up, swell, upheaval, uprising, upsurge, upthrust), kabartı (blotch, bulging, exanthema, protuberance, puff, puffiness, pustule, raise, tumefaction, whelk), kabarma (eruption, flow, ground swell, heave, heaving, intumescence, pulvinate, surge, surging, swell, upheaval, uprising, upsurge, upthrust), kabaran (intumescent, surging, surgy, tumescent), kabarık (bagging, balloon, bloated, bunchy, fluffy, hipped, puffy, raised, shaggy, swollen, tumid), şişme (distension, inflatable, inflated, intumescence, puff, puffing, swell, tumefaction), şişlik (blain, boss, chilblain, intumescence, protuberance, proud flesh, puff, puffiness, rising, thickening, turgescence), şişkinlik (bulge, inflation, intumescence, puffiness, surfeit, swell, tumescence, tumidity, turgidness), şişirme (fustian, inflation, overcharge, overstatement, puff, puffery, puffing, puffing up, tumefaction, turgescence, verbiage), şişirilmiş (blown up, exaggerated, fustian, inflated, pompous, puffed up, puffy, turgescent), şiş (blown up, broach, bulge, concretion, knitting needle, needle, protuberant, rising, roasting jack, skewer, spit, swell, tumefaction, turgescence, turgid, wart), abartılı (dithyrambic, exaggerated, fond, fustian, hyperbolic, hyperbolical, inflated, magniloquent, ornate, overdone, puffy, slobbery, spread eagle, stagey, stagy, steep, tall, theatrical, turgescent, turgid, well-rounded), çıban (abscess, blain, boil, fistula, gathering). (various references)

Turkmen		зiю (spit, tumor). (various references)

Ukrainian		опухання (tuber, tumescence), опухлість. (various references)

Welsh		ymchwydd (surge), chwydd. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Greek	700 BCE-300 CE	emphysema, orgasmos. (various references)
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	copia, curvatis, curvato, curvatus, inflationes, tumidi, tumor, tumorem. (various references)
Old French	900-1400	boce. (various references)
Middle Dutch	1100-1500	blyster. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Language	Date	Source	Isaiah Chapter 30, Verse 13
Greek (transliterated)	250 BC	Septuagint	Dia touto estai umin h amartia auth wV teicoV pipton paracrhma polewV ocuraV ealwkuiaV hV paracrhma parestin to ptwma
Latin	405	Vulgate	Propterea erit vobis iniquitas haec sicut interruptio cadens et requisita in muro excelso quoniam subito dum non speratur veniet contritio eius
Middle English	1395	Wyclif	Therfore shal be to you this wickidnesse as betwe brosure fallende, and ayeen soyt in an heey wal; for sodeynly whil me hopeth not, shal come the to-brosing of it.
Jacobean English	1611	King James	Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instant.
Victorian English	1833	Webster	Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instant.
Basic English	1964	Ogden	This sin will be to you like a crack in a high wall, causing its fall suddenly and in a minute.
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Language	Isaiah Chapter 30, Verse 13
Cebuano	Tungod niini kining kasal-anan mahimo alang kaninyo ingon sa usa ka guba nga kuta nga andam sa pagkapukan, nga nagapatong sa usa ka hataas nga kuta, kansang pagkaguba modangat sa kalit sa dihadiha.
Croatian	grijeh æe vam taj biti poput pukotine, visoko na zidu izboèene, koja prijeti rušenjem.
Danish	derfor skal denne Brøde blive for eder som en truende, voksende Revne i en knejsende Mur, hvis Fald vil indtræffe brat, lige i et Nu;
Dutch	Daarom zal ulieden deze misdaad zijn gelijk een vallende scheur, uitwaarts gebogen in een hogen muur, welks breuk haastelijk in een ogenblik komen zal.
Finnish	niin tämä synti on oleva kuin repeämä korkeassa muurissa, joka uhkaa sortua ja pullistuu; se särkyy äkkiä, yhtäkkiä.
French	Ce crime sera pour vous Comme une partie crevassée qui menace ruine Et fait saillie dans un mur élevé, Dont l`écroulement arrive tout � coup, en un instant:
German	so soll euch solche Untugend sein wie ein Riß an einer hohen Mauer, wenn es beginnt zu rieseln, die plötzlich unversehens einfällt und zerschmettert,
Haitian Creole	Enben, se nou ki va pote chay la. Nou tankou yon miray ki make fann, tankou yon gwo miray byen wo ki gen yon pati ladan l' k'ap souke, ki gonfle prèt pou tonbe. N'ap rete konsa, n'ap tonbe anvan nou bat je nou.
Hungarian	Azért e bûn olyan lesz tinéktek, mint a leesendõ falhasadék, a mely már kiáll a magas kõfalon, a melynek aztán nagy hirtelen jõ el romlása;
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari	Sebab itu kamu bersalah. Kamu seperti tembok tinggi yang retak dari atas ke bawah; dengan tiba-tiba saja kamu akan roboh.
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama	sebab itu kesalahan ini menjadi bagimu akan suatu belah dari atas sampai ke bawah pada pagar tembok yang tinggi, yang melentur keluar, dan yang kerobohannya akan jadi dengan segera pada sesaat juga;
Italian	ebbene questa colpa diventer� per voi come una breccia che minaccia di crollare, che sporge su un alto muro, il cui crollo avviene in un attimo, improvviso,
Maori	Na, ko te tukunga iho o tenei he ki a koutou, ka rite ki te pakaru o te taiepa, meake nei hinga, kua ngawha haere i te wahi tiketike, kitea rawatia ake kua puta whakarere tona pakaru.
Norwegian	derfor skal denne misgjerning bli eder som et falleferdig stykke som skyver sig mere og mere frem på en høi mur, inntil muren med ett, i et øieblikk, styrter sammen og knuses;
Portuguese	por isso esta maldade vos será como brecha que, prestes a cair, já forma barriga num alto muro, cuja queda virá subitamente, num momento.
Rumanian	de aceea nelegiuirea aceasta va fi pentru voi ca spqrtura unui zid knalt, care, spqrgkndu-se, ameninyq sq cadq, wi a cqrui prqbuwire vine deodatq, kntr`o clipq:
Russian	ФП �'ЕЪЪБЛПОЙЕ ЬФП �'Х�"ЕФ �"МС ЧБУ, ЛБЛ ХЗТПЦБАЭБС � Б�"ЕОЙЕН ФТЕЭЙОБ, П�'ОБТХЦЙЧЫБСУС Ч ЧЩУПЛПК УФЕОЕ, ЛПФПТПК ТБЪТХЫЕОЙЕ ОБУФБОЕФ ЧОЕЪБ� ОП, Ч П�"ОП НЗОПЧЕОЙЕ.
Spanish	por eso, este pecado os será como muro agrietado que se abre y cae, como un alto muro al cual de repente, en un instante, le viene su quebrantamiento.
Swedish	därför skall denna missgärning bliva för eder såsom ett fallfärdigt stycke på en hög mur, vilket mer och mer giver sig ut, till dess att muren plötsligt och med hast störtar ned och krossas;
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Derivations
	Words beginning with "swelling": swellings. (additional references)
	Words ending with "swelling": upswelling. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Swelling" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Sellindge, sellinmg, swaling, zwilling. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "swelling" (pronounced swe"ling)
5	-w e" l i ng	dwelling, quelling, welling.
4	-e" l i ng	Belling, compelling, dispelling, excelling, expelling, felling, foretelling, helling, Melling, misspelling, outselling, propelling, rappelling, rebelling, repelling, reselling, retelling, selling, shelling, smelling, Snelling, spelling, telling, yelling.
3	-l i ng	ailing, ambling, angling, annealing, appalling, appealing, assailing, assembling, babbling, backpedaling, baffling, bailing, baling, balling, bankrolling, barreling, battling, beguiling, belittling, bicycling, billing, blackmailing, boggling, boiling, Bolling, bottling, bowling, brawling, bristling, broiling, bubbling, buckling, bugling, bumbling, bundling, bungling, burgling, burling, bustling, cackling, cajoling, calling, canceling, cancelling, Carling, ceiling, channeling, chilling, chortling, chronicling, chuckling, circling, coddling, commingling, compiling, concealing, consoling, controlling, cooling, corralling, counseling, countervailing, coupling, cowling, crackling, cradling, crawling, crippling, crumbling, cuddling, culling, curling, curtailing, cycling, dabbling, dangling, darling, dawdling, dazzling, dealing, decoupling, derailing, detailing, Dialing, disabling, disgruntling, dismantling, dissembling, distilling, doling, doubling, dribbling, drilling, drizzling, drooling, duckling, dueling, dulling, dumpling, dwindling, earthling, emailing, embezzling, empaneling, enabling, encircling, enrolling, entailing, entangling, entitling, equaling, extolling, failing, falling, feeling, fiddling, filing, filling, fizzling, flailing, fledgling, foaling, foiling, fondling, fooling, forestalling, fouling, foundling, freewheeling, fueling, fuelling, fulfilling, fumbling, funneling, galling, gambling, giggling, gobbling, grappling, Grayling, grilling, groundling, groveling, growling, grueling, grumbling, gurgling, guzzling, haggling, hailing, handling, hassling, hauling, healing, heckling, hilling, hobbling, holing, howling, huddling, humbling, hurdling, hurling, hurtling, hustling, idling, imperiling, inhaling, initialing, inkling, installing, instilling, intermingling, jailing, jiggling, jostling, juggling, Keeling, killing, kindling, kneeling, labeling, leveling, lolling, Lulling, mailing, mangling, Marling, marshaling, meddling, middling, milling, mingling, mishandling, mislabeling, modeling, mothballing, mottling, muddling, mulling, mumbling, muscling, nailing, needling, nestling, nibbling, nonruling, oiling, overbilling, overhauling, overkilling, overruling, overselling, paddling, paneling, panhandling, paralleling, parboiling, parceling, paroling, patrolling, pearling, pedaling, peddling, peeling, pickling, piddling, piling, Pilling, Pindling, poling, polling, pooling, prevailing, profiling, prowling, pulling, pummeling, puzzling, quadrupling, quarreling, quibbling, quilling, Quisling, railing, rambling, rankling, rattling, raveling, recalling, reconciling, recycling, redoubling, reeling, refueling, regaling, rekindling, remodeling, repealing, rescheduling, resembling, reshuffling, retailing, retooling, revealing, reveling, ridiculing, Riesling, rifling, rilling, rippling, rivaling, roiling, rolling, rototilling, ruffling, ruling, rumbling, rustling, saddling, sailing, sampling, Sandling, sapling, scaling, scheduling, Schilling, schooling, scowling, scrambling, scribbling, scuttling, sealing, seedling, Seeling, settling, shilling, shoveling, shriveling, shuffling, shuttling, sibling, signaling, signalling, singling, sizzling, skilling, smiling, smuggling, snarling, snowballing, sparkling, Sparling, spilling, spiraling, spiralling, spoiling, sprawling, sprinkling, squabbling, squealing, stalling, stapling, starling, startling, stealing, stenciling, sterling, stifling, stockpiling, stonewalling, storytelling, straddling, strangling, strickling, stripling, strolling, struggling, stumbling, styling, suckling, surveilling, swashbuckling, swilling, swindling, swirling, swiveling, tabling, tackling, tailing, tangling, thrilling, throttling, Tilling, tingling, tinkling, toddling, toggling, toiling, tolling, tooling, toppling, totaling, totalling, toweling, trailing, trampling, traveling, travelling, trembling, trickling, trifling, trilling, tripling, trolling, troubling, tumbling, tunneling, twiddling, twinkling, twirling, unappealing, unavailing, unbundling, underling, underselling, unfailing, unfeeling, unfurling, unraveling, unsettling, unsmiling, untangling, unveiling, unwilling, veiling, waffling, waggling, wailing, walling, warbling, weakling, whaling, wheeling, whirling, whistling, whittling, wholesaling, wiggling, wiling, willing, wobbling, wrangling, wrestling, wrinkling, yearling, yodeling.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-g-i-l-l-n-s-w"
	-1 letter: selling, slewing, swingle, welling.
	-2 letters: ingles, sewing, single, swinge.
	-3 letters: gills, glens, ingle, lenis, lewis, liens, lines, lings, lisle, lweis, nills, segni, sengi, sinew, singe, sling, snell, swell, swill, swine, swing, wells, wiles, wills, wines, wings.
	-4 letters: egis, ells, engs, gels, gens, gien, gies, gill, gins, glen, ills, isle, legs, leis, lens, lien, lies.
	Words containing the letters "e-g-i-l-l-n-s-w"
	+1 letter: dwellings, swellings.
	+2 letters: swivelling, towellings, upswelling, upwellings, weaselling, wellspring, willingest.
	+3 letters: wellsprings, wholesaling, willingness.
	+4 letters: disbowelling, sleepwalking, stonewalling, swelteringly.
	+5 letters: fellowshiping, unwillingness, willingnesses.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
swelling	241	tongue swelling	23
foot swelling	183	swelling hands and foot	21
ankle swelling	169	joint swelling	21
leg swelling	138	face swelling	21
pregnancy swelling	65	neck swelling	20
brain swelling	56	hand swelling	20
knee swelling	51	cause of foot swelling	19
facial swelling	45	swelling in pregnancy	19
swelling hands	39	eyelid swelling	19
swelling during pregnancy	38	finger swelling	18
vaginal swelling	36	swelling tiffany	18
abdominal swelling	33	swelling throat	17
reduce swelling	33	breast swelling	17
lip swelling	32	swelling in foot	16
eye swelling	31	bite mosquito swelling	16
swelling of ankle and foot	31	sunburn swelling	15
lymph node swelling	31	swelling in ankle	15
swelling in leg	25	body swelling	14
stomach swelling	24	cause of ankle swelling	14
leg and foot swelling	23	testicle swelling	12
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Swelling

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