Usually means: Increase in size or volume.
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We found 47 dictionaries that define the word swell:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. swell: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. swell: Merriam-Webster
  3. swell: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. swell: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. swell: Collins English Dictionary
  6. swell: Vocabulary.com
  7. Swell, swell: Wordnik
  8. swell: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. swell: Wiktionary
  10. swell: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. swell: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. swell: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. swell: Dictionary.com
  14. swell (n.), swell (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. swell: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. S'well, Swell (band), Swell (bookbinding), Swell (disambiguation), Swell (geology), Swell (ocean), Swell: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Swell: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. swell: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. swell: Rhymezone
  20. swell: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. swell: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. swell: FreeDictionary.org
  23. swell: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. swell: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

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

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. swell: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. swell: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. swell: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. SWELL: Acronym Finder
  2. swell: Idioms

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  2. Weather Glossary (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. swell, swell, swell, swell, swell: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. S.Well: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Swell: Sports Definitions

Tech (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)
  2. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  4. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  5. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)
  6. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  7. Swell: Latitude Mexico

(Note: See swelled as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (intransitive) To become bigger, especially due to being engorged.
verb:  (transitive) To cause to become bigger.
verb:  (intransitive) To grow gradually in force or loudness.
verb:  (transitive) To cause to grow gradually in force or loudness.
verb:  (transitive) To raise to arrogance; to puff up; to inflate.
verb:  (intransitive) To be raised to arrogance.
verb:  To be elated; to rise arrogantly.
verb:  To be turgid, bombastic, or extravagant.
verb:  To protuberate; to bulge out.
noun:  The act of swelling; increase in size.
noun:  A bulge or protuberance.
noun:  Increase of power in style, or of rhetorical force.
noun:  A long series of ocean waves, generally produced by wind, and lasting after the wind has ceased.
noun:  (music) A gradual crescendo followed by diminuendo.
noun:  (music) A device for controlling the volume of a pipe organ.
noun:  (music) A division in a pipe organ, usually the largest enclosed division.
noun:  A hillock or similar raised area of terrain.
noun:  (geology) An upward protrusion of strata from whose central region the beds dip quaquaversally at a low angle.
noun:  (informal, dated) A person who is stylish, fancy, or elegant.
noun:  (informal) A person of high social standing; an important person.
noun:  The front brow of a saddle bow, connected in the tree by the two saddle bars to the cantle on the other end.
adjective:  (dated) Fashionable, like a swell or dandy.
adjective:  (Canada, US, dated slang) Excellent.
adverb:  (Canada, US, informal) Very well.

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