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swell adjective

  /swɛl/
  • (North America, dated, _, slang) Excellent.
 mahtava
  • (dated) Fashionable, like a swell or dandy.
 makea, siisti

swell noun

  /swɛl/
  • (informal) A person of high social standing; an important person.
 herra
  • (informal, dated) A person who is stylish, fancy, or elegant.
 keikari, komeljanttari
  • A hillock or similar raised area of terrain.
 maaston kohouma
  • A long series of ocean waves, generally produced by wind, and lasting after the wind has ceased.
 maininki
  • Increase of power in style, or of rhetorical force.
 nousu
  • The act of swelling; increase in size.
 paisuminen, turpoaminen
  • A bulge or protuberance.
 patti, uloke

swell verb

  /swɛl/
  • (intransitive) To become bigger, especially due to being engorged.
 turvota, paisua
  • (transitive) To raise to arrogance; to puff up; to inflate.
 paisuttaa, pullistua, turvottaa, ylpistyttää, ylpistyä
  • To be turgid, bombastic, or extravagant.
 pöyhkeillä
  • (transitive) To cause to grow gradually in force or loudness.
 voimistua

swell adverb

  /swɛl/
  • (North America, informal) Very well.
 hienosti, hyvin

swelling noun

  /ˈswɛl.ɪŋ/
  • Anything swollen, especially any abnormally swollen part of the body.
 ajettuma, pöhö, pöhöttymä, turvotus
  • The state of being swollen.
 ajetus, paisuminen, pöhötys, turvotus
swell the ranks
kasvattaa (jonkun) määrää
swell box
paisutuskaappi
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