Definitions:

1. become filled with pride, arrogance, or anger verb
   • The applause of the audience made my heart swell with feeling.
2. cause to become swollen verb
   • The water swells the wood
3. come up, as of feelings and thoughts, or other ephemeral things verb
   • The song on the radio made memories of my ex swell.
4. expand abnormally verb
   • The bellies of the starving children are swelling
5. increase in size, magnitude, number, or intensity verb
   • The music swelled to a crescendo

Synonyms:

• crestless wave
• gallant
• hot
• intumesce
• puff up
• swell up
• tumefy
• tumesce
• well
• well up

NearBy Words:

• swelled
• swellhead
• swelling