Meaning of "swollen" in the English dictionary

PRONUNCIATION OF SWOLLEN

swollen  [ˈswəʊlən]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SWOLLEN

Swollen is a verb and can also act as an adjective.

The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb swollen in English.

WHAT DOES SWOLLEN MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Swelling (medical)

In medical parlance, swelling, turgescence or tumefaction is a transient abnormal enlargement of a body part or area not caused by proliferation of cells. It is caused by accumulation of fluid in tissues. It can occur throughout the body, or a specific part or organ can be affected. Swelling is considered one of the five characteristics of inflammation; along with pain, heat, redness, and loss of function. In a general sense, the suffix "-megaly" is used to indicate a growth, as in hepatomegaly, acromegaly, and splenomegaly. A body part may swell in response to injury, infection, or disease. Swelling, especially of the ankle, can occur if the body is not circulating fluid well. Generalized swelling, or massive edema, is a common sign in severely ill people. Although slight edema may be difficult to detect to the untrained eye, especially in an overweight person, massive edema is very obvious.

Definition of swollen in the English dictionary

The definition of swollen in the dictionary is tumid or enlarged by or as if by swelling. Other definition of swollen is turgid or bombastic.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO SWOLLEN

PRESENT

Present

I swell

you swell

he/she/it swells

we swell

you swell

they swell

Present continuous

I am swelling

you are swelling

he/she/it is swelling

we are swelling

you are swelling

they are swelling

Present perfect

I have swelled

you have swelled

he/she/it has swelled

we have swelled

you have swelled

they have swelled

Present perfect continuous

I have been swelling

you have been swelling

he/she/it has been swelling

we have been swelling

you have been swelling

they have been swelling

Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past

I swelled

you swelled

he/she/it swelled

we swelled

you swelled

they swelled

Past continuous

I was swelling

you were swelling

he/she/it was swelling

we were swelling

you were swelling

they were swelling

Past perfect

I had swelled

you had swelled

he/she/it had swelled

we had swelled

you had swelled

they had swelled

Past perfect continuous

I had been swelling

you had been swelling

he/she/it had been swelling

we had been swelling

you had been swelling

they had been swelling

Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future

I will swell

you will swell

he/she/it will swell

we will swell

you will swell

they will swell

Future continuous

I will be swelling

you will be swelling

he/she/it will be swelling

we will be swelling

you will be swelling

they will be swelling

Future perfect

I will have swelled

you will have swelled

he/she/it will have swelled

we will have swelled

you will have swelled

they will have swelled

Future perfect continuous

I will have been swelling

you will have been swelling

he/she/it will have been swelling

we will have been swelling

you will have been swelling

they will have been swelling

The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional

I would swollen

you would swollen

he/she/it would swollen

we would swollen

you would swollen

they would swollen

Conditional continuous

I would be swelling

you would be swelling

he/she/it would be swelling

we would be swelling

you would be swelling

they would be swelling

Conditional perfect

I would have swollen

you would have swollen

he/she/it would have swollen

we would have swollen

you would have swollen

they would have swollen

Conditional perfect continuous

I would have been swelling

you would have been swelling

he/she/it would have been swelling

we would have been swelling

you would have been swelling

they would have been swelling

Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative

you swell
we let´s swell
you swell

The imperative is used to form commands or requests.

NONFINITE VERB FORMS

Infinitive

to swell

Past participle

swelled

Present Participle

swelling

Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

SYNONYMS OF «SWOLLEN»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «swollen» and belong to the same grammatical category.

synonyms of swollen

accelerate · amplify · augment · awesome · balloon · beau · belly · billow · blade · bloat · bloated · booshit · brill · brim · bulge · cockscomb · dandy · de luxe · dilate · distend · distended · dropsical · edematous · enlarge · enlarged · escalate · excellent · exclusive · exo · expand · extend · fashion plate · fashionable · fatten · first-rate · fop · grand · grow · heighten · increase · inflamed · intensify · marvellous · mount · multiply · nob · oedematous · overflow · phat · posh · protrude · puffed up · puffy · rad · rise · ritzy · round out · schmick · sensational · sik · smart · sovereign · step up · stylish · superb · surge · toff · topping · tumefy · tumescent · tumid · undulation · wave · wonderful

TRANSLATION OF SWOLLEN

Find out the translation of swollen to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of swollen from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «swollen» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: 肿胀的
• Translator English - Spanish: inflamado
• English: swollen
• Translator English - Hindi: सूजन
• Translator English - Arabic: مَنْفُوخ
• Translator English - Russian: опухший
• Translator English - Portuguese: inchado
• Translator English - Bengali: স্ফীত
• Translator English - French: enflé
• Translator English - Malay: Bengkak
• Translator English - German: geschwollen
• Translator English - Japanese: 腫れた
• Translator English - Korean: 부푼
• Translator English - Javanese: Bengkak
• Translator English - Vietnamese: bị sưng
• Translator English - Tamil: வீக்கம்
• Translator English - Marathi: सुजलेल्या
• Translator English - Turkish: şişmiş
• Translator English - Italian: gonfio
• Translator English - Polish: spuchnięty
• Translator English - Ukrainian: спухлий
• Translator English - Romanian: umflat
• Translator English - Greek: πρησμένος
• Translator English - Afrikaans: geswel
• Translator English - Swedish: svullen
• Translator English - Norwegian: hoven

10 QUOTES WITH «SWOLLEN»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word swollen.

1

Richard Carmona

As a young surgeon in training at the University of California San Francisco General Hospital in the early '80s, my colleagues and I were inundated with an epidemic of young men with fevers, rashes, swollen lymph nodes and eventually death.

2

Louis C. K.

If you're a cartoon character or most TV characters, sure, you'll fight, because the punches are juicy-sounding and they don't leave marks. But in real life, if somebody punches you in the eye, it doesn't make any noise and your eye is swollen for, like, six months. It's a nightmare to get punched in the eye.

3

Andrea Dworkin

Undernourished, intelligence becomes like the bloated belly of a starving child: swollen, filled with nothing the body can use.

4

Diane von Furstenberg

What I think I sell with my clothes is confidence, so hopefully all my dresses, my accessories, are friends to the women. When you open the closet, and your eyes are swollen, and you don't like the way you look, you go to your friends.

5

Eva Herzigova

I don't think I ever had a swollen head: I remember where I come from.

6

Barbara Park

My own pregnancies were all about me, me, me. My aches, my pains, my swollen feet, and my body that looked like the Michelin Man.

7

Jeev Milkha Singh

During the Volvo China Open in April 2011, a lot of players fell ill. My son also was taken ill. I contracted a strange viral later, which had symptoms of swollen ankles and wrists and has left me weakened.

8

Justin Tuck

I love rings, but I can't wear them. I mean, look at my knuckles. My fingers and joints are so swollen from years of playing. That means no wedding band, either. Luckily, I have a very understanding wife.

9

Casey Wilson

At my wedding, I was dancing so furiously that I fell hard on my kneecaps. The next morning, my knees were so swollen that I had to get a wheelchair at the airport to go on my honeymoon.

10

Adam Yauch

I started feeling this little lump in my throat, like you would feel if you have swollen glands or something like that, like you'd feel if you have a cold, so I didn't really think it was anything.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SWOLLEN»

Discover the use of swollen in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to swollen and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

Swollen

Like the divers, Sam risks herself to be with Farouk, growing more and more attached to him, longing to feel safe enough to let herself go and show her true feelings. From the Hardcover edition.

Melissa Lion, 2007

In The Swollen

Las Vegas City Life Weekly “In the Swollen seems to break through boundaries over what is acceptable in verse.” – The Blackboard “While In the Swollen reads as one woman's story, it is truly a story of connection and disconnection, ...

LisaAnn LoBasso

What's Wrong with My Dog?

Jake Tedaldi. My Dog Has a Swollen Belly My Dog Has a Swollen Leg. What. to. Look. For. If your dog exhibits that characteristic “look at me, I just swallowed a watermelon” look, try to assess her overall attitude. Obviously, a lethargic ...

Jake Tedaldi, 2007

The Complete Guide to Natural Healing

SYMPTOMS Swelling or discomfort in the neck (near the ears), throat, groin, or armpits, sometimes accompanied by sore throat or fever, are symptoms of swollen glands. WHAT ARE SWOLLEN GLANDS? From Modern Western Medicine ...

Tom Monte, 1997

Measuring the Mechanical Response of Swollen Hydrogels

ABSTRACT MEASURING THE MECHANICAL RESPONSE OF SWOLLEN HYDROGELS By Ryan James Monroe A combined experimental and analytical study has been conducted to understand the mechanical response of a swollen ...

Ryan James Monroe, 2008

Nanoparticulates as Drug Carriers

Microemulsions, swollen micelles, micelles There is much debate in the literature as to what exactly differentiates a microemulsion from a micelle at low volume fractions of disperse phase. Some investigators have perceived a difference ...

‎2006

Botulism

What about the swollen and dented cans that mothers and many advice columns commonly remind families to throw away? Are these signs that the food contained in the damaged cans could cause botulism, and if so, why? Swollen cans are ...

Maxine Rosaler, 2004

A Dictionary of the Otchipwe Language, Explained in English: ...

Qoshkobagassin, the leaves tremble or shake by the wind. Bagakddis, (nin) n. v. I am not drunk, I am sober; 3. p.-i; p. beg.. sid. S. Anissadis. Bagakadisiwin, s. soberness; tresnost.] Bdganome, (nin) n. v. my cheek is swollen, (or, my cheeks are ...

Frederic Baraga, 1853

Homoeopathic Therapeutics

oated at the root, papillae elevated, or dry, smooth, cracked ; Lach., glistening, or dry, cracked especially on tip, swollen, trembling, difficulty in moving t ; Morph., red tip and borders ; Nux v., dark cracked edges, heaviness ; Pallad., dry in ...

Samuel Lilienthal, 1998

The First Aid Companion for Dogs & Cats

... Cold pack or compress Buffered aspirin (Bufferin) Hot pack or compress Towels Bucket Warm water Epsom salts Antihistamine (Ben- adryl) A cat often develops a swollen leg when he's bitten by another cat and the injury becomes infected.

Amy D. Shojai, 2001

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SWOLLEN»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term swollen is used in the context of the following news items.

Three Rivers Regatta nixes boat events due to swollen rivers

Officials canceled Formula One boat races and all other water-based events for the three-day festival which began Friday because the rain-swollen rivers are ... «Washington Times, Jul 15»

Gilbertsville boy, 12, dies after falling into rain-swollen French Creek …

A 12-year-old boy drowned after slipping into a Chester County creek on Wednesday afternoon. Officials said that Jacob Karnchanaphati, of the Gilbertsville ... «WFMZ Allentown, Jul 15»

Illinois officials halt boat traffic on rain-swollen rivers

LASALLE — Illinois officials have closed the rain-swollen Vermilion and Illinois rivers to recreational boat traffic. The (LaSalle) News-Tribune reports that the ... «The State Journal-Register, Jun 15»

Two Kayakers rescued from rain swollen White River

DELAWARE COUNTY, Ind. (June 28, 2015)—Two women were pulled from the swift moving waters of White River after they were separated from their kayaks ... «Fox 59, Jun 15»

Western Pennsylvania kayaker rescued from rain-swollen river

JOHNSTOWN, Pa. (AP) – A woman is recovering after emergency crews rescued her from a partially overturned kayak in a rain-swollen western Pennsylvania ... «WKBN.com, Jun 15»

Swollen streams flood some northern Indiana areas

BUFFALO, Ind. - Rain-swollen rivers and streams overflowed their banks in many places across northern Indiana, covering some low-lying roads and causing ... «WTHR, Jun 15»

Turkish woman ordered to pay for abusive husband's swollen hand

A woman in Ankara has been ordered to pay compensation to her husband after his hand became swollen while beating her, Turkish media has reported. «Hurriyet Daily News, Jun 15»

Man Rescued From Rain-Swollen Wilbur Wash

A firefighter waded into the rain-swollen wash around 7:25 p.m. to retrieve the man, who had been clinging to a wall of the channel near Wilbur Avenue and ... «CBS Local, May 15»

Roger Daltrey's swollen vocal cords force the Who to postpone three …

North American Tour based on doctors' advice that lead singer Roger Daltrey remain on vocal rest, due to swollen vocal cords, for the remainder of this week. «Straight.com, May 15»

Archie Bradley Posted A Selfie of His Swollen Face

Bradley was lucid enough to snap a selfie of his swollen face on the gurney and talk to reporters afterward. He also said he watched the replay numerous times. «The Big Lead, Apr 15»