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swollen

adjective as in enlarged

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Her five-year-old son, Billy Wray, had six large bites on his right leg, which became "incredibly swollen" and caused him to feel sick.

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But a few universities used the occasion to push back against the idea that schools’ coffers were swollen or that they weren’t focused on affordability or work critical to the U.S.

Struggling to make eye contact, I notice his hands are red and swollen.

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Yet some of them are sacrificing their ultracheap loans to tap their swollen housing equity.

The gap between bodily experience and how to capture it on the page results in writing swollen with desire — and its rare fulfillment.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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