swell

The gap between bodily experience and how to capture it on the page results in writing swollen with desire — and its rare fulfillment.

Their number had swelled to several dozen on that very hot day, a significant turnout for a community of fewer than 1,000 people.

Within days her eyelid had drooped and swelled.

Ten years later, it had swelled to more than 12,800 and grew further as the United States entered the Korean War and more service-connected families moved into the region, according to census data.

Out in the benign but swollen landscape, so placid now but so full of potential unrest, unspeakable things have happened.