Swelled

Definition

swell /swel/ v ( pt swelled /sweld/; pp swollen /'swǝƱlǝn/ or swelled ) ၁။ (က) ~ (sth) (up) (with sth) ပြသည္။ ေဖာင္းသည္။ မို႔သည္။ ေရာင္သည္။ ေရာင္ကိုင္းသည္။ Wood often swells when wet. ❍ His eyes swelled (up) with tears. ❍ She twisted her ankle and it swelled up. (ခ) ~ (sth) (out) ကားသည္။ ေဖာင္းသည္။ ေဖာင္းေစသည္။ The sails swelled (out) in the wind. ❍ The wind swelled (out) the sails. ၂။ ~ (into/ to sth) ; ~ sth (to sth) (with sth) (ပမာဏ) တိုးသည္။ (အသံ) ဟည္းသည္၊ ဟိန္းသည္။ The group of onlookers soon swelled (in) to a crowd. ❍ The murmur swelled into a roar. ❍ A number of extra costs have swelled the total. ❍ I brought some friends along to swell the ranks (ie join those already available to help, etc). ❍ Her actions helped swell the tide of opposition. ၃။ ~ (sth) (with sth) (ရင္)ေကာ့သည္။ His breast/ heart swelled with pride at his achievement. See also GROUND SWELL n ၁။ [sing] ပူျခင္း။ စူျခင္း။ ေဖာင္းျခင္း။ ႂကြျခင္း။ တိုးျခင္း။ the swell of opposition to the proposals ❍ the swell of her belly. ၂။ [C] လိႈင္းအိထျခင္း။ လိႈင္းတံပိုးထျခင္း။ feel seasick in the heavy swell. ၃။ [C] ( music ) ဟိန္းလာျခင္း။ adj ( dated US infml ) သိပ္ေကာင္း။ အရမ္းေကာင္း။ That's a swell idea. ❍ You look swell in that dress!

Examples

1. My ankles tend to swell when I travel by air.
2. Moisture causes the timber to swell.
3. [be swollen with something] : The river was swollen with rain.
4. Attendance figures have swollen to 37
5. 000 this season.
6. Holidaymakers swell the local population in summer.
7. The shouts swelled to a roar.