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swell
adjective as in wonderful
noun as in large increase, flow
verb as in become larger
Strong matches
Example Sentences
In Asia, the flu has made an early comeback, and quickly swelled to epidemic proportions in Japan and Taiwan.
Her five-year-old son, Billy Wray, had six large bites on his right leg, which became "incredibly swollen" and caused him to feel sick.
When goons broke up an independent labor rally, he reports, a naval intelligence officer enthused to the gangster boss Meyer Lansky, “Gee, you did a swell job.”
The volume of oil at sea swelled by about 3.4 million barrels a day in September, the greatest increase since the pandemic, according to the International Energy Agency.
But a few universities used the occasion to push back against the idea that schools’ coffers were swollen or that they weren’t focused on affordability or work critical to the U.S.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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