SWELL

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swell I. substantiv

1. bombare (a unei ţevi de tun etc.).

2. ridicătură (a pământului).

3. mărire (a sunetului).

4. (muz.) crescendo şi diminuendo.

5. (mar.) hulă.

6. foale (de orgă).

7. (fam.) tip elegant.

8. (sl.) grangur, personaj de seamă.

swell II. adjectiv

1. (fam.) elegant, şic.

2. (despre un artist etc.) de prim rang.

3. (amer. sl.) epatant, grozav;

a swell guy un tip bine.

swell III. past swelled, part. trec. swollen sau swelled verb A. tranzitiv

1. a umfla.

2. (muz.) a intensifica (o notă).

3. a mări.

swell III. past swelled, part. trec. swollen sau swelled verb B. intranzitiv

1. (şi to swell up) a se umfla;

to swell with importance, (fam.) to swell like a turkey cock a se umfla de mândrie, a se umfla ca un curcan.

2. (despre ape) a creşte, a se umfla.

3. to swell out a se bomba.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

Here the sea was calm, save for a heavy but smooth ground-swell, and I took in the sea-anchor and began to row.

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

Signs and symptoms may include swelling around the affected joint and pain.

(Arthritis, NCI Thesaurus)

I crawled up from the floor, and saw my face in the glass, so swollen, red, and ugly that it almost frightened me.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

From the head of the lawn, on the first soft swell from the valley-level, looked down the deep-porched, many-windowed house.

(White Fang, de Jack London)

My heart, which was before sorrowful, now swelled with something like joy; I exclaimed, Wandering spirits, if indeed ye wander, and do not rest in your narrow beds, allow me this faint happiness, or take me, as your companion, away from the joys of life.

(Frankenstein, de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Jealousy and bitterness had been suspended: selfishness was lost in the common cause; but at the moment of her appearance, Frederick was listening with looks of devotion to Agatha's narrative, and pressing her hand to his heart; and as soon as she could notice this, and see that, in spite of the shock of her words, he still kept his station and retained her sister's hand, her wounded heart swelled again with injury, and looking as red as she had been white before, she turned out of the room, saying, I need not be afraid of appearing before him.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

Swollen gas-bags!

(The Lost World, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

My heart swelled.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

On either side the seamen whom Sir Nigel had chosen for the purpose had cast their anchors over the side of the galleys, so that the three vessels, locked in an iron grip, lurched heavily forward upon the swell.

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I heard Mrs. King crying and Mr. King talking very loud, and Grace and Ellen turned away their faces when they passed me, so I shouldn't see how red and swollen their eyes were.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

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