swell

v

1. dilate, expand, extend, spread, outspread, spread out; distend, inflate, bloat, puff out, blow up, dome; intumesce, tumefy; fill out, fatten; lengthen, elongate, stretch.

2. increase, enlarge, magnify, amplify, augment; wax, grow larger, rise, well up; intensify, escalate, step up, accelerate, snowball, mushroom.

3. protrude, project, extrude, jut or jut out, stick out, poke out; extend, excurse, obtrude, bulge, bilge, protuberate, Anat. protract; belly, bag, balloon, billow.

4. strut, swagger, peacock, prance, parade, promenade; ride a high horse, swashbuckle, bluster; flourish, flaunt, show off, throw out one's chest, put on airs, be arrogant, be insolent; flounce, U.S. Inf. sashay, mince.

n

5. dilation, enlargement, widening, thickening, broadening, dilatation; lengthening, expansion, extension, spread; distention, inflation, swelling, bloating, intumescence, tumefaction, turgescence, tur-gidness, turgidity.

6. protuberance, prominence, eminence, excrescence, gibbosity, tuberosity, convexity; bulge, bow, bell, bump, lump, hump; knob, knurl, knot, node, nodulation, nodosity; protrusion, projection, jut, extrusion, excurvation; beetling, jutting, impendence, overhang.

7. hill, incline, acclivity, slope, Scot, and North Eng. brae, rise; grade, gradient, climb, ramp, hillside, upgrade.

8. increase, magnification, amplification, crescendo; intensification, concentration, exaggeration, deepening, heightening.

9.Slang.a. dandy, fop, coxcomb, Sl. peacock, Beau Brummell, fancy Dan; clotheshorse, prettyboy; jack-a-dandy, blade, gay blade, Chiefly Brit. blood, buck; gallant, lady-killer, ladies' man.b. aristocrat, silk-stocking, "blue blood; dignitary, celebrity, notable, social lion.

adj

10.Slang, (all usu. of things) stylish, modish, fashionable, chic, smart, newfangled; elegant, recherche", grand, luxurious, deluxe, high-toned.

11.(all of persons) aristocratic, silk-stocking, blue-blooded; distingue", of high standing; poised, genteel, refined, polished, gentlemanly, urbane, suave.

12. first-rate, excellent, first-class, jim-dandy, topflight, superior, of the highest grade.