Usually means: Increase in size or volume.
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We found 45 dictionaries that define the word swelling:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. swelling: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. swelling: Merriam-Webster
  3. swelling: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. swelling: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. swelling: Collins English Dictionary
  6. swelling: Vocabulary.com
  7. Swelling, swelling: Wordnik
  8. swelling: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. swelling: Wiktionary
  10. swelling: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. swelling: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. swelling: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Swelling, swelling: Dictionary.com
  14. swelling: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Swelling (medical), Swelling: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Swelling: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. swelling: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. swelling: Rhymezone
  19. Swelling: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. swelling: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. swelling: FreeDictionary.org
  22. swelling: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. swelling: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. swelling: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Swelling (medical), swelling: Encyclopedia

Medicine (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. swelling: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Swelling (edema): Merck Manuals
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Allergy Glossary (No longer online)
  6. Swelling: MEDLINE plus Illustrated Medical Encyclopedia
  7. Neurotrauma Glossary (No longer online)
  8. Swelling (medical), swelling: Medical dictionary
  9. Rudy's List of Archaic Medical Terms (No longer online)
  10. University of Maryland Glossary of Medical Terms (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. swelling: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Swelling: Easton Bible

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. swelling: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  3. SWELLING: Power Engineering

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The state of being swollen.
noun:  Anything swollen, especially any abnormally swollen part of the body.
noun:  (figurative) A rising, as of passion or anger.

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