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We found 23 dictionaries with English definitions that include the word swollen:
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General dictionaries General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. swollen: Compact Oxford English Dictionary [home, info]
  2. swollen: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
  3. swollen: Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, 11th Edition [home, info]
  4. swollen: Cambridge International Dictionary of English [home, info]
  5. Swollen: Wiktionary [home, info]
  6. swollen: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info]
  7. swollen: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info]
  8. swollen: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info]
  9. swollen: Dictionary.com [home, info]
  10. swollen: Online Etymology Dictionary [home, info]
  11. swollen: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
  12. swollen: Cambridge Dictionary of American English [home, info]
  13. Swollen: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
  14. swollen: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info]
  15. swollen: Rhymezone [home, info]
  16. Swollen: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
  17. swollen: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info]
  18. swollen: Free Dictionary [home, info]
  19. swollen: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info]
  20. swollen: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info]
  21. swollen: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
  22. swollen: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]

Computing dictionaries Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. swollen: Encyclopedia [home, info]

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Quick definitions (swollen)

adjective:  abnormally expanded or increased in size; (`swollen' is sometimes used in combination) ("The need to clean out swollen inventories")
adjective:  overfull with water ("Swollen rivers and creeks")
adjective:  characteristic of false pride; having an exaggerated sense of self-importance ("So swollen by victory that he was unfit for normal duty")
adjective:  abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas ("Swollen hands")

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Phrases that include swollen:   swollen glands, swollen hock syndrome of shar pei dogs, abdomen swollen, glands - swollen, swollen belly disease, more...

Words similar to swollen:   tumid, bloated, conceited, distended, egotistic, egotistical, flooding, overflowing, puffed, puffy, self-conceited, swell, swollen-headed, tumescent, vain, bulging, enlarged, hulchy, in flood, turgent, more...


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