- present participle of swell.
swelling
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The rain has fallen almost continually since Thursday afternoon, flooding roads and swelling Bangkok's canals, sending water into many homes and restaurants alongside them, AFP reporters saw.
From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2026
The fear is dialled up an extra notch by Byron Bullock's rich sound design, with the music swelling almost unbearably intensely when spluttering nasties stumbled closer.
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026
The hiker crawled through the night, down the remainder of Avalanche Gulch to Horse Camp Cabin, at one point removing his boots due to painful swelling, the agency said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026
Mulberry also pointed to Dell’s own recent earnings report, which showed its AI server business reaching $60.9 billion in orders and the company’s backlog swelling to $95 billion.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 11, 2026
She had to start feeling around the rest of his arm, to see if it was swelling up.
From "Fourth Grade Rats" by Jerry Spinelli
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The dimensions of both the swellings and their narrow connecting segments mattered.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 17, 2026
Initial symptoms include fever, headaches, swellings, back pain, aching muscles.
From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2022
Many infected rabbits display a strange form of myxomatosis, developing massive swellings on their eyes and ears.
From New York Times ● Jun. 20, 2022
“One female refugee got swellings on her arms and legs and is unable to stand or walk, while one man, maybe because they’ve been at sea for too long, is a bit malnourished,” Nurul said.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 6, 2022
Each twinge, each murmur of slight pain, ripples of sloughed-off matter, swellings and diminishings of tissue, the droolings of the flesh, these are signs, these are the things I need to know about.
From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
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