Learn English Irregular Verbsswell /swɛl/
- to become larger and rounder than normal, to increase in size or amount:
Her knee was already starting to swell.
Dogs also can develop abscesses - an inflammation of the tissue that makes the leg swell.
The wood swelled after being saturated in the rain.
It was during a dry spell in mid-June, the rainy season, when Tokusho's leg suddenly swelled up.
Greater Dublin's population has swollen to 1.5 million; in other words, more than a third of the entire country lives here.
The number of unemployed teachers has swollen, and it is still increasing.
Past simple
- swelled
- swole
- swelt
Past participle
- swollen /ˈswəʊlən/
- swelled
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