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| Main Entry: |
swell
[swel]
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | large increase, flow |
| Synonyms: | billow, crescendo, growth, ripple, rise, seat, surf, surge, undulation, uprise, wave |
| Antonyms: | decline, decrease |
| Main Entry: | abound |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | exist in abundance |
| Synonyms: | be alive with, be all over the place, be knee deep in, be no end to, be plentiful, be thick with, be up to one's ears in, crawl with, crowd, flourish, flow, have a full plate, infest, overflow, proliferate, swarm, swell, teem, thrive |
| Antonyms: | deficient, fail, lack, need, short, want |
| Main Entry: | accumulate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | gather or amass something |
| Synonyms: | accrue, acquire, add to, agglomerate, aggregate, amalgamate, assemble, bring together, cache, clean up, collect, collocate, compile, concentrate, cumulate, draw together, expand, gain, gather, grow, heap, heap together, hoard, incorporate, increase, load up, lump*, make a bundle, make a killing, mass, pile up, pile*, procure, profit, rack up, roll up, round up, scare up, stack up, stockpile, store, store up, swell, unite |
| Antonyms: | disperse, dissipate, dwindle, lessen, lose, spend, squander, waste |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | amplify |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | increase in size or effect |
| Synonyms: | add, augment, beef up, boost, build up, deepen, develop, elaborate, enlarge, exaggerate, expand, expatiate, extend, flesh out, heighten, hike up, inflate, intensify, jack up, lengthen, magnify, pad, pyramid, raise, soup up, strengthen, stretch, supplement, swell, up, widen |
| Antonyms: | abridge, compress, condense, contract, curtail, decrease, lessen, reduce, shorten, summarize |
| Main Entry: | aristocrat |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | privileged person |
| Synonyms: | blueblood, gentleperson, lace curtain, noble, patrician, peer, silk stocking, swell*, upper cruster |
| Antonyms: | commoner, plebian, proletariat |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | augment |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make greater; improve |
| Synonyms: | add to, aggrandize, amplify, beef up, boost, build, build up, compound, develop, enhance, enlarge, expand, extend, grow, heighten, increase, inflate, intensify, magnify, mount, multiply, pad, piggyback, progress, raise, reinforce, strengthen, sweeten, swell, tag on |
| Notes: | augment means to add more of the same thing; supplement means to add something, usually to make up for a deficiency |
| Antonyms: | decrease, degrade |
| Main Entry: | bag |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | droop |
| Synonyms: | balloon, billow, bulge, flap, flop, hang, lop, sag, swell |
| Main Entry: | balloon |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | billow out; bloat |
| Synonyms: | belly, blow up, bulge, dilate, distend, enlarge, expand, inflate, puff out, swell |
| Main Entry: | beat |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | throbbing |
| Synonyms: | cadence, cadency, flow, flutter, measure, meter, oscillation, palpitation, pound, pressure, pulsation, pulse, quake, quiver, rhyme, rhythm, ripple, shake, surge, swell, swing, throb, thump, tick, undulation, vibration |
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