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Definition: Swollen |
SwollenAdjective1. Abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas; "hungry children with bloated stomachs"; "he had a grossly distended stomach"; "eyes with puffed (or puffy) lids"; "swollen hands"; "tumescent tissue"; "puffy tumid flesh". 2. Abnormally expanded or increased in size; (`swollen' is sometimes used in combination); "distended wineskins"; "the need to clean out swollen inventories"; "the raisins were plump and soft and swollen from being soaked"; "huge blood-swollen mosquitoes". 3. Characteristic of false pride; having an exaggerated sense of self-importance; "a conceited fool"; "an attitude of self-conceited arrogance"; "an egotistical disregard of others"; "so swollen by victory that he was unfit for normal duty"; "growing ever more swollen-headed and arbitrary"; "vain about her clothes". 4. Overfull with water; "swollen rivers and creeks". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "swollen" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
Synonyms: SwollenSynonyms: bloated (adj), conceited (adj), distended (adj), egotistic (adj), egotistical (adj), flooding (adj), in flood(p) (adj), overflowing (adj), puffed (adj), puffy (adj), self-conceited (adj), swollen-headed (adj), tumescent (adj), tumid (adj), turgid (adj), vain (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Expansion | Adjective: expanded; Verb: larger; (large; swollen; expansive; wide open, wide spread; flabelliform; overgrown, exaggerated, bloated, fat, turgid, tumid, hypertrophied, dropsical; pot bellied, swag bellied; edematous, oedematous, obese, puffy, pursy, blowzy, bigswoln, distended; patulous; bulbous; (convex); full blown, full grown, full formed; big; abdominous, enchymatous, rhipidate; tumefacient, tumefying. |
Pride | Haughty lofty, high, mighty, swollen, puffed up, flushed, blown; vainglorious; purse-proud, fine; proud as a peacock, proud as Lucifer; bloated with pride. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Even with a swollen nose, I can still smell a rat. (The Brady Bunch Movie; writing credit: Betty Thomas, written by Laurice Elehwany, Rick Copp, Bonnie Turner and Terry Turner) The candles are lit, the band is playing, and as the force-shielded dome above us slides apart, revealing a dark and sullen sky, hung with the ancient light of livid, swollen stars, I can see that we are in for a fabulous evening's apocalypse! (The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy; writing credit: Douglas Adams; John Lloyd) A morning swollen with new life, a morning on which, if I had the voice, I would let loose with song. (Northern Exposure; writing credit: Khadijah Hashim) Rollin', rollin', rollin', keep them doggies rollin', man my ass is swollen, Rawhide! (City Slickers; writing credit: Lowell Ganz, Babaloo Mandel) | |
Lyrics | My swollen eyes reveal my pain (Mishale; performing artist: Andru Donalds) | |
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Puerto Rican boy with swollen abdomen due to bilharzia (schistosomiasis). Credit: CDC. | Postauricular lymph nodes are frequently swollen in rubella. Credit: CDC. | ||
A patient with typical "nickel and dime" lesions on the face, which can develop during secondary syphilis. Other symptoms that may occur during this stage are mild fever, fatigue, headache, sore throat, patchy hair loss, and swollen lymph glands. Credit: CDC. | This patient developed eyebrow alopecia during the secondary stage of syphilis. Other symptoms that may occur during this stage are mild fever, fatigue, headache, sore throat and swollen lymph glands. Credit: CDC. | ||
The elastic fibers of the tunica media are swollen, irregular and fragmented. A fibrous plaque is replacing the elastic fibers in one area; Elastic stain technique; magnification 450X. Credit: CDC. | ![]() | Emergency Watershed Program provided for rehabilitation of berm in Washington, Co. built as a result of flash flooding that placed homes at risk of sliding into swollen creek. Credit: Bob Nichols. | |
![]() | ... the swollen face of a toothache sufferer... / WHO photo. Credit: National Library of Medicine. | ![]() | Head-and-shoulders portrait of African American man with eyes swollen shut from beating. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Swollen mountain streams, threatening valley homes. West Virginia. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| Author | Quotation |
Bacon | Fame, if like a river, beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid. |
Francis Bacon | Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | They saw only her sweet face, her hair was in charming disorder, her eyelids were still swollen with sleep. |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Her face was swollen and her eyes were hard. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Reddened or swollen areas. (references) | |
Some patients have swollen glands. (references) | ||
Adenoids can become infected and swollen. (references) | ||
Human Rights | Cote d'Ivoire | Press photographs regularly show prisoners with swollen or bruised faces and bodies. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Swollen" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 65.99% of the time. "Swollen" is used about 493 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 65.99% | 326 | 15,930 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 34.01% | 168 | 24,050 |
| Total | 100.00% | 493 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "swollen": become swollen ♦ distended swollen ♦ my foot is swollen ♦ swollen from crying ♦ swollen lip. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "swollen": swollen-bellied, swollen-eyed, swollen-foot, swollen-footed, swollen-headed, swollen-headedness, swollen-shoot, swollen-skulled. | |
Ending with "swollen": rain-swollen. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
swollen ankle | 720 | swollen ankle and foot | 60 |
swollen lymph node | 507 | swollen nipples | 59 |
swollen member | 430 | swollen tonsils | 59 |
swollen gland | 404 | lyrics member swollen | 55 |
swollen foot | 389 | cause of swollen foot | 50 |
swollen leg | 110 | finger swollen | 48 |
swollen gum | 102 | swollen uvula | 44 |
swollen testicle | 99 | gland in neck swollen | 43 |
swollen lip | 95 | swollen joint | 42 |
swollen | 88 | swollen vagina | 40 |
swollen eyelid | 78 | swollen eye | 37 |
swollen clit | 77 | swollen throat | 36 |
swollen tongue | 74 | swollen breast | 34 |
swollen lymph gland | 73 | in lymph neck node swollen | 34 |
hands swollen | 73 | swollen clitoris | 32 |
pussy swollen | 70 | swollen labia | 32 |
swollen knee | 69 | lymph neck node swollen | 31 |
gland neck swollen | 68 | swollen stomach | 31 |
swollen eyes | 63 | swollen abdomen | 29 |
cause for swollen ankle | 61 | bud swollen taste | 29 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "swollen"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | i shtuar (advanced, concentrated, renewed), i fryrë (assuming, bloated, bombastic, bulging, bumptious, cock-a-hoop, conceited, extravagant, flatulent, fustian, grandiloquent, grandiose, high, highfaluting, high-sounding, hoity toity, inflated, mouthy, orotund, overblown, plethoric, pompous, puffed, puffed up, puffy, sounding, tumid, turgid, uppish, uppity, vainglorious), i ënjtur (dropsical, tumid, turgid). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | منفوخ (blown, inflated, inflationary, puffed), منتفخ (baggy, bloat, bloated, blown, bulging, bulgy, distended, full, inflated, overblown, puffed, puffy, swelling), متفاخر (boastful, proud), متورم (inflated, puffed up, swelling, tumescent, turgid), وارم, زائد (excessive, excrescent, plus, redundant, superfluous, supernumerary). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | високопарен (heroic, magniloquent, rotund, sonorous, tub-thumping, turgid), отекъл (puffy, tumid), 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, swelling, theatrical, tumid, uppish, uppity), подут (bloated, bulbous, gibbous, gummy, puffed up, puffy, tumid, turgid), подпухнал (bloated, dropsical, puffed up, puffy, sodden, turgid), издаден (bold, outstanding, pendent, prognathous, projecting, projective, prominent, protrusive, protuberant, salient, swelling). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 胀大 (swelled), 腫 , 臌 (dropsical), 膨 , 脹大 , 脹 (dropsical, to be bloated, to swell), 泡 (puffed, soak, to steep). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | rozvodnìný, příè.min. od swell, oteklý, opuchlý (turgid), nabìhlý. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | lymfoedematoest ben (lymphatic leg, swollen leg). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | gezwollen. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | ورم کرده (Angry, Blown), اماس کرده . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | turpea (bloated, thick, turgid), paisunut, pöhöttynyt (puffy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | gonflé. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | angeschwollen (puffy), verschwollen (puffy), geschwollen (billowed, bombastic, chesty, inflated, overblown, pompous, puffed, puffy, sententiously, thick, tumid, tumidly, turgid, turgidly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | μετοχή του swell, πρησμένοσ (bloated, blubber, tumescent, turgid), φουσκωτόσ (bulgy), εξωγκωμένοσ (exaggerated, turgid). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מובלם, מ ופח (exaggerated, haughty, inflated, snotty, vain, windy), י"יר (arrogant, conceited, haughty, high and mighty, overweening, pompous, popinjay, presumptuous, snob, snooty, snotty, supercilious), תפוח (apple, ball, heap, pile, puffed out, tumid), צב" (distended, engorged), פוח (distending, exaggeration, inflated, inflation, puffing, puffy, tumid). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | duzzadt (bloated, blubber, chuff, flown, puffed-up, turgid), megduzzadt (flown), megdagadt, dagadt (bloated, chuff, chuffed, embossed, fat, flown, gummy, lardass, puffy, turgid). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | gembung (filled, suffed), gelembung (vesicle), buntal (bloated), bengkak (bloat, bubo, bulge, protuberant, swell, tumefaction, tumefy, tumescent, tumid, tumor), abuh (swelling). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Irish | ata. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | turgido, gonfio (baggy, flown, inflated, puffy), gonfiato, gonfia (filled with air). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 腫れる (to become swollen, to swell), 脹れぼったい (puffy, somewhat swollen), 脾腫 (swollen or cancerous spleen), ール貝 (commonmussel, kickboxing, moon, moon face, moonlight, moonlighter, moonsault, moule, movie, Muay Thai, mussel, puffy face, swollen face), 浮腫む (to become swollen, to swell). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ーンフェース (puffy face, swollen face), ひしゅ (dagger, dirk, swollen or cancerous spleen), むくむ (to become swollen, to swell), はれぼったい (puffy, somewhat swollen), はれる (to be sunny, to become swollen, to clear away, to clear up, to stop raining, to swell). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 붇" (swelled). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | sheidit (blown, puffed), attit (bulging, distended, enlarged, varicose). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ollensway inchado (bloated, blown, blubber, distent, gummy, tumescent, tumid, turgid, up). (various references) inchado. (various references) umflat (baggy, bloated, blubber, bombastic, bulging, dropsical, flush, gummy, high-flown, inflated, long, puffy, tumid, turgid), pompos (emphatic, exaggerative, highfalutin, highfaluting, high-flown, high-sounding, important, large, magniloquent, pompous, state, stilted, theatrical, tumid), piperat (juicy, peppery, salt, steep), exagerat (exaggerated, exaggerative, hyperbolic, inordinate, overmuch, profuse, regardless, steep, tall, theatrical, thick, undue), bulbucat (arched, bloated, bulging, goggled, swelled), balonat (distended), afectat (affected, affectedly, Arty, curious, demure, demurely, euphuistic, far fetched, finical, finicking, gushing, highfalutin, highfaluting, high-flown, lackadaisical, La-di-da, mannered, miminy-piminy, mincing, namby-pamby, niminy-piminy, preciously, pretty, primly, recherche, scenic, self conscious, stilted, studied, theatrical), îngâmfat (arrogant, assuming, bloated, bumptious, cock-a-hoop, conceited, flaunty, fop, haughtily, inflated, perky, presumptuous, self-conceited, self-pleasing, snooty, stuck up, supercilious, vainglorious). (various references) вздутый (inflated), непомерно высокий, набухший. (various references) clupaid (the swollen throat in cattle). (various references) podbuo (puffy), otekao (tumid, turgid), otečen (dropsical, tumid), natečen. (various references) hinchado (billowy, bloated, blown, bulging, cocksy, cocky, inflated, puffed, puffy, stilted). (various references) svullen (puffy, tumescent, tumid, turgid), uppsvälld (bloated, puffy, turgescent). (various references) บวม (bag), กริยาช่องที่ 3 ของ swell. (various references) kabarık (bagging, balloon, bloated, bunchy, fluffy, hipped, puffy, raised, shaggy, swelling, tumid), şişmiş (bloated, blown, blown up, inflated, puffed, puffy, swelled, tumid, turgid), şişkin (bagging, bulging, fat, gross, puffed up, puffy, tumid, turgescent). (various references) яellenmek (be bloated, be swollen). (various references) надто високий, здутий (flatulent), бундючний (bombastic, cavalier, chilly, cockish, flatulent, haughty, highfalutin, highfaluting, high-hearted, mouth-filling, overly, pompous, puffed up, scenic, scenical, snobbish, snobby). (various references) tính tự phụ (bumptiousness, chestiness, cockiness, conceit, donnishness, presumption, presumptuousness, pretentiousness, pride, self-conceit, swelled head, swollen head), tính tự cao tự đại (swelled head, swollen head). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | inflatus, tumidi, tumidus, turgida, turgidus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Acts Chapter 28, Verse 6 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Oi de prosedokwn auton mellein pimprasqai h katapiptein afnw nekron epi polu de autwn prosdokwntwn kai qewrountwn mhden atopon eiV auton ginomenon metaballomenoi elegon qeon auton einai |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | At illi existimabant eum in tumorem convertendum et subito casurum et mori diu autem illis sperantibus et videntibus nihil mali in eo fieri convertentes se dicebant eum esse deum |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And thei gessiden that he schulde be turned `in to swellyng, and falle doun sudenli, and die. But whanne thei abiden longe, and sien that no thing of yuel was don in him, thei turneden hem togider, and seiden, that he was God. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | Howbeit they wayted when he shuld have swolne or fallen doune deed sodenly. But after they had loked a greate whyle and sawe no harme come to him they chaunged their myndes and sayde that he was a God. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Howbeit they looked when he should have swollen, or fallen down dead suddenly: but after they had looked a great while, and saw no harm come to him, they changed their minds, and said that he was a god. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Yet they looked when he would have swelled, or fallen down dead suddenly: but after they had looked a great while, and saw no harm come to him, they changed their minds, and said that he was a god. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | But they had the idea that they would see him becoming ill, or suddenly falling down dead; but after waiting a long time, and seeing that no damage came to him, changing their opinion, they said he was a god. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Acts Chapter 28, Verse 6 |
| Albanian | Dhe ata po prisnin që ai të fryhej ose të binte i vdekur në çast; por, mbasi pritën gjatë dhe panë se nuk po i ndodhte asgjë e pazakontë, ndryshuan mendim dhe thanë se ishte një perëndi. |
| Cebuano | Ug ilang gipaabut nga mohubag ang iyang kamot o nga dihadiha matumba siya nga patay; apan sa nakapaabut na silag taas nga panahon ug wala silay nakitang kadaut nahitabo kaniya, nangausab sila sa ilang paghunahuna ug nanag-ingon nga siya usa ka dios. |
| Croatian | a oni oèekivahu da æe oteæi i umah se srušiti mrtav. Pošto su dugo èekali i vidjeli da mu se ništa neobièno nije dogodilo, promijeniše mišljenje te stadoše govoriti da je bog. |
| Danish | Men de ventede, at han skulde hovne op eller pludseligt falde død om. Men da de havde ventet længe og så, at der ikke skete ham noget usædvanligt, kom de på andre Tanker og sagde, at han var en Gud. |
| Dutch | En zij verwachtten, dat hij zou opzwellen, of terstond dood nedervallen. Maar als zij lang gewacht hadden, en zagen, dat geen ongemak hem overkwam, werden zij veranderd, en zeiden, dat hij een god was. |
| Finnish | Ja he odottivat hänen ajettuvan tai äkisti kaatuvan kuolleena maahan. Mutta kun he olivat kauan odottaneet ja näkivät, ettei hänelle mitään pahaa tapahtunut, muuttivat he mielensä ja sanoivat hänen olevan jumalan. |
| French | Ces gens s`attendaient le voir enfler ou tomber mort subitement; mais, après avoir longtemps attendu, voyant qu`il ne lui arrivait aucun mal, ils changèrent d`avis et dirent que c`était un dieu. |
| German | Sie aber warteten, wenn er schwellen würde oder tot niederfallen. Da sie aber lange warteten und sahen, daß ihm nichts Ungeheures widerfuhr, wurden sie anderes Sinnes und sprachen, er wäre ein Gott. |
| Hungarian | Azok pedig azt várják vala, hogy õ meg fog dagadni, vagy nagyhirtelenséggel halva rogyik le. Mikor azonban sok ideig várták, és látták, hogy semmi baja nem lesz, megváltoztatva értelmöket, istennek mondják vala õt. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Mereka pikir sebentar lagi tangan Paulus akan bengkak atau tiba-tiba ia akan jatuh mati. Tetapi setelah menunggu beberapa lama dan tidak ada sesuatu luar biasa yang terjadi kepadanya, pikiran mereka berubah lalu mereka berkata bahwa Paulus adalah dewa. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Maka mereka itu bersangka bahwa ia akan bengkak, atau seketika itu juga rebah mati. Tetapi apabila sudah lama mereka itu menunggu dan tiada kelihatan barang sesuatu bahaya atasnya, maka berubahlah sangka mereka itu, lalu mengatakan bahwa Paulus suatu dewa. |
| Maori | Na whanga noa ratou kia tetere ia, kia hinga whakarere ranei, kia mate: heoi ka roa noa to ratou whanganga, a, i te kitenga kahore he aha i pa ki a ia, ka puta ke o ratou whakaaro, ka mea, he atua ia. |
| Norwegian | men de ventet på at han skulde hovne eller falle død om med det samme. Da de nu ventet lenge, og så at han ikke hadde noget ondt av det, kom de på andre tanker, og sa at han var en gud. |
| Portuguese | Eles, porém, esperavam que Paulo viesse a inchar ou a cair morto de repente; mas tendo esperado muito tempo e vendo que nada de anormal lhe sucedia, mudaram de parecer e diziam que era um deus. |
| Rumanian | Oamenii aceia se awteptau sq -l vadq umflkndu-se sau cqzknd deodatq mort; dar, dupqce au awteptat mult, wi au vqzut cq nu i se kntkmplq niciun rqu, wi-au schimbat pqrerea, wi ziceau cq este un zeu. |
| Shuar | Tura niisha Eárchatpiash tusar ii pujuarmiayi. "Túmatskesha jaka inianchatpiash" tiarmiayi. Túrasha ti Núkap pujussha penké najaweachmiayi. Túrunamtai, nuinkia Nusháa Enentáimprar "Pápruka Yúschashit" tiarmiayi. |
| Spanish | Mientras tanto, ellos esperaban que comenzara a hincharse o que cayera muerto de repente. Pero al pasar mucho tiempo esperando y al ver que no le pasaba nada malo, cambiaron de parecer y decían que era un dios. |
| Swahili | Wale watu walikuwa wakitazamia kwamba angevimba au hapohapo angeanguka chini na kufa. Baada ya kungojea kwa muda mrefu bila kuona kwamba Paulo amepatwa na jambo lolote lisilo la kawaida, walibadilisha fikira zao juu yake, wakasema kuwa ni mungu. |
| Uma | Ra'uli' pue' ngata, mowoto-ki mpai' pale-na, ba mule' modungka mata' -i pai' mate. Hiaa' mahae rapeka'au, uma-hawo moapa-i. Ngkai ree mobali' wo'o-mi pekiri-ra, ra'uli': "Paulus toei, to mobaraka' -i!" |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words ending with "swollen": upswollen. (additional references) | |
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"Swollen" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Scollen, Seillean, soleen, sollen, sowle, swallen, swaller, swallon, swolen, swolhen, swoll, swoller, swollon, swolwen, Swoofle, wollen, Zwolle. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "swollen" (pronounced swō"lun) |
| 4 | -ō" l u n | colon, solan, Solon, stolen, Tolan. |
| 3 | -l u n | adrenaline, Alan, Ballon, befallen, Billon, bouillon, Callan, Chamberlain, chaplain, crestfallen, discipline, elan, fallen, felon, gallon, globulin, gremlin, insulin, javelin, kaolin, Kremlin, lanolin, Magdalen, Marlin, masculine, melon, Mullen, muskmelon, muslin, pelon, penicillin, pentathlon, phenolphthalein, pollen, porcelain, stollen, sullen, talon, triathlon, vanillin, villain, watermelon, woolen, woollen, Zeppelin. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-l-l-n-o-s-w" | |
-2 letters: enols, enows, lenos, losel, lowes, lowse, noels, owsen, snell, swell, wells. | |
-3 letters: ells, enol, enow, eons, leno, lens, lone, lose, lowe, lown, lows, news, noel, noes, nose, nows, oles, ones, owes, owls, owns, owse, sell, sewn, slew, sloe, slow, snow, sole, sone, sown, well, wens, woes, wons. | |
-4 letters: ell, els, ens, eon, low. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-l-l-n-o-s-w" | |
+1 letter: snowbell, woollens. | |
+2 letters: lowliness, snowbells, stonewall, upswollen. | |
+3 letters: allowances, alpenglows, callowness, fallowness, hollowness, lowlanders, mellowness, sallowness, snowballed, stonewalls, towellings, woolliness, yellowfins. | |
+4 letters: downhillers, groundswell, lowlinesses, shallowness, stonewalled, stonewaller, wholesaling, worldliness. | |
+5 letters: callownesses, disallowance, disbowelling, fallownesses, groundswells, hollownesses, mellownesses, sallownesses, stonewallers, stonewalling, wollastonite, woollinesses. | |
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