Synonyms for swollen

Verb

1. swell, increase

usage: increase in size, magnitude, number, or intensity; "The music swelled to a crescendo"

2. swell, puff up, act, behave, do

usage: become filled with pride, arrogance, or anger; "The mother was swelling with importance when she spoke of her son"

3. swell, swell up, intumesce, tumefy, tumesce, expand

usage: expand abnormally; "The bellies of the starving children are swelling"

4. well up, swell, originate, arise, rise, develop, uprise, spring up, grow

usage: as of feelings and thoughts, or other ephemeral things; "Strong emotions welled up"; "Smoke swelled from it"

5. well, swell, surface, come up, rise up, rise

usage: come up; "Tears well in her eyes"

6. swell, grow

usage: cause to become swollen; "The water swells the wood"

Adjective

1. bloated, distended, puffed, puffy, swollen, tumescent, tumid, turgid, unhealthy (vs. healthy)

usage: abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas; "hungry children with bloated stomachs"; "he had a grossly distended stomach"; "eyes with puffed (or puffy) lids"; "swollen hands"; "tumescent tissue"; "puffy tumid flesh"

2. distended, swollen, expanded (vs. contracted)

usage: abnormally expanded or increased in size; (`swollen' is sometimes used in combination); "distended wineskins"; "the need to clean out swollen inventories"; "the raisins were plump and soft and swollen from being soaked"; "huge blood-swollen mosquitoes"

3. conceited, egotistic, egotistical, self-conceited, swollen, swollen-headed, vain, proud (vs. humble)

usage: characteristic of false pride; having an exaggerated sense of self-importance; "a conceited fool"; "an attitude of self-conceited arrogance"; "an egotistical disregard of others"; "so swollen by victory that he was unfit for normal duty"; "growing ever more swollen-headed and arbitrary"; "vain about her clothes"

4. flooding, in flood(predicate), overflowing, swollen, high (vs. low)

usage: overfull with water; "swollen rivers and creeks"