swell

Adjective

• very good
  • he did a bully job
    
  • a neat sports car
    
  • had a great time at the party
    
  • you look simply smashing
    

Noun

• a man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance

• a crescendo followed by a decrescendo

• a rounded elevation (especially one on an ocean floor)

• the undulating movement of the surface of the open sea

Verb

• cause to become swollen
  • The water swells the wood
    

• come up, as of a liquid
  • Tears well in her eyes
    
  • the currents well up
    

• come up (as of feelings and thoughts, or other ephemeral things)
  • Strong emotions welled up
    
  • Smoke swelled from it
    

• expand abnormally
  • The bellies of the starving children are swelling
    

• become filled with pride, arrogance, or anger
  • The mother was swelling with importance when she spoke of her son
    

• increase in size, magnitude, number, or intensity
  • The music swelled to a crescendo
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  dandy , dude , fop , gallant , sheik , beau , fashion plate , clotheshorse , crestless wave , well , well up , swell up , intumesce , tumefy , tumesce , puff up