Synonyms for swelling
ˈswɛl ɪŋswelling

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1. swelling, puffiness, lumpnoun

   an abnormal protuberance or localized enlargement

   Synonyms:
   splashiness, stumblebum, jut, lubber, oaf, ostentation, lummox, inflation, excrescence, gibbosity, glob, ostentatiousness, bulge, hunk, chunk, ball, protrusion, clod, clump, pretentiousness, pompousness, intumescency, hump, pomposity, lout, lump, goon, gibbousness, bump, gawk, protuberance, extrusion, puffiness, prominence, intumescence

2. bulge, bump, hump, swelling, gibbosity, gibbousness, jut, prominence, protuberance, protrusion, extrusion, excrescencenoun

   something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings

   "the gun in his pocket made an obvious bulge"; "the hump of a camel"; "he stood on the rocky prominence"; "the occipital protuberance was well developed"; "the bony excrescence between its horns"

   Synonyms:
   lump, expulsion, protrusion, prominence, gibbousness, jut, jutting, intumescence, extrusion, bulge, projection, protuberance, gibbosity, intumescency, bump, blow, puffiness, hump, excrescence

3. intumescence, intumescency, swellingnoun

   the increase in volume of certain substances when they are heated (often accompanied by release of water)

   Synonyms:
   prominence, bump, puffiness, extrusion, intumescency, protrusion, jut, excrescence, protuberance, intumescence, gibbosity, gibbousness, hump, lump, bulge

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1. swellingadjective

   Synonyms:
   bombastic, pompous, turgid, inflated, tumid, stilted, grandiloquent, pretentious, SPREAD-EAGLE, HIGHFALUTIN, sophomorical, high-flowing, high-sounding

2. swellingnoun

   Synonyms:
   swell

3. swellingnoun

   Synonyms:
   protuberance, bump

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1. swellingadjective

   Synonyms:
   turgent, tumefacient, tumid, turgid, grandiloquent, bombastic, grandiose

2. swellingnoun

   Synonyms:
   intumescence, turgescence, prominence, protuberance, bump, node, blain, distention

   Antonyms:
   subsidence, detumescence

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1. List of paraphrases for "swelling":

   edema, blowing, swell, bulge, inflammation, oedema, ballooning, inflation

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1. Pooja Newman:

   I felt my lips swelling and couldn’t breathe, i knew I was in trouble.

2. Ja Du:

   I think things that made no sense to most people make sense to us on an individual level in almost every person, like a swelling feeling you feel when you listen to dramatic music, it’s all sound and vibration but something in it relates to your soul on such a subconscious level that you connect with it, and [ that’s ] how I feel about the Filipino culture.

3. Robert Frenck:

   And so the myocarditis -- which means swelling of the muscles of the heart -- we have seen that as a rare side effect has been associated with it looks like the second dose of either the Moderna or Pfizer vaccine, rare meaning in the likelihood of a few per 100,000, so it's still like a 99.999 % chance that this won't happen. It's been almost all in teenage boys, and it's been mild been treated with Motrin( ibuprofen), and they've gotten better.

4. Andrew Schneider:

   Listen, can you hear it Spring's sweet cantata. The strains of grass pushing through the snow. The song of buds swelling on the vine. The tender timpani of a baby robin's heart. Spring.

5. Alexandar Djelic:

   The swelling was so bad, the doctors had to cut away an outer part of my penis so I can urinate. I was put on a catheter, then got an infection, but survived the horror.