Verb

• S: (v) swell (increase in size, magnitude, number, or intensity) "The music swelled to a crescendo"
• S: (v) swell, puff up (become filled with pride, arrogance, or anger) "The mother was swelling with importance when she spoke of her son"
• S: (v) swell, swell up, intumesce, tumefy, tumesce (expand abnormally) "The bellies of the starving children are swelling"
• S: (v) well up, swell (come up (as of feelings and thoughts, or other ephemeral things)) "Strong emotions welled up"; "Smoke swelled from it"
• S: (v) well, swell (come up, as of a liquid) "Tears well in her eyes"; "the currents well up"
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• S: (v) surface, come up, rise up, rise (come to the surface)
• S: (v) ascend, go up (travel up) "We ascended the mountain"; "go up a ladder"; "The mountaineers slowly ascended the steep slope"
• S: (v) travel, go, move, locomote (change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically) "How fast does your new car go?"; "We travelled from Rome to Naples by bus"; "The policemen went from door to door looking for the suspect"; "The soldiers moved towards the city in an attempt to take it before night fell"; "news travelled fast"
• sentence frame
• S: (v) swell (cause to become swollen) "The water swells the wood"

Adjective

• S: (adj) conceited, egotistic, egotistical, self-conceited, swollen, swollen-headed, vain (characteristic of false pride; having an exaggerated sense of self-importance) "a conceited fool"; "an attitude of self-conceited arrogance"; "an egotistical disregard of others"; "so swollen by victory that he was unfit for normal duty"; "growing ever more swollen-headed and arbitrary"; "vain about her clothes"