Synonym: bloated, conceited, distended, egotistic, egotistical, flooding, in flood, intumescent, overflowing, puffed, puffy, self-conceited, swollen-headed, tumescent, tumid, turgid, vain. Similar words: pollen, pollen count, mary wollstonecraft, holler, roller, sullen, collect, college. Meaning: ['swəʊlən] adj. 1. abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas 2. abnormally expanded or increased in size; (`swollen' is sometimes used in combination) 3. characteristic of false pride; having an exaggerated sense of self-importance 4. overfull with water.
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91. Everyone suffered from that daily and prolonged exposure to a Baldersdale winter - swollen faces and aching joints were commonplace.
92. The pharynx and right side of the neck were heavily swollen.
93. Primo notices his dark swollen belly, pushing out between the flaps of a green flak jacket.
94. It turned out to be the food market, where they sold swollen watermelons and aubergines and strange shaped fruits.
95. His swollen, inflamed face had become unbearable now; he could neither touch it, nor refrain from touching it.
96. One is raised primarily for the purpose of foie gras, the succulent swollen liver of the goose.
97. Swollen mucous membranes, red and enlarged blood vessels; inflammation of all the tissues of the eye.
98. The light was much clearer in this room now. Traffic noise had swollen into the full cancer of morning rush-hour.
99. Salina arrived at the clinic with a grossly swollen foot which had to be lanced on the spot.
100. The rising sun appeared like a swollen red ball suspended low in the tenuous mist.
101. Helen's swollen stomach was finally becoming noticeable, but she still seemed slim and full of energy.
102. Abscesses can be hastened to burst by fermenting the swollen painful area with hot compresses.
103. Leaking, discoloured, swollen, rusty or corroded batteries should never be used.
104. Elisabeth greeted him with a smile of relief, her teeth prominent beneath swollen lips.
105. He struggled through a few games but a swollen knee indicated his problems were not over.
106. Sometimes, with the parasitic cases, elephantiasis had set in, and the swollen legs were particularly horrible.
107. Never my best feature, my face is still swollen, up there on the left-hand side.
108. Two teenage boys were missing feared drowned after their car crashed into a swollen river at Duleek, County Louth.
109. This lamb's leg was tangled with twine and swollen so badly it had to be put down.
110. The lamp beside his bed threw a faint glow over his swollen, passionate, tormented face.
111. Her face was grimy, swollen from tears and smeared with food.
112. The next morning the damaged eye was swollen and protruding from the eye socket.
113. He displayed a swollen, bruised digit and a mangled thumbnail.
114. It was said that the rains had swollen a river to a point where it was threatening a bridge on the line.
115. In Washington his face became so acutely inflamed and swollen that he sought out a local physician.
116. My ankle was so much swollen... and the bruise was so painful that I could get no rest.
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117. Her skinny legs and swollen ankles, covered with white stockings, rest unnaturally on the footrests of her chair.
118. Earl's shirt hung in shreds and one of his eyes was swollen shut.
119. Pressure Gornei piled on the pressure from the start and by the end of the contest Griffin's face was badly swollen.
120. But it has its mundane side, like backache and swollen ankles.
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