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The word "swell" can be used as noun, verb, adjective, adverb and adjective.

Word Relationships

Derived Terms

Venetian swell ground swell groundswell knee swell one swell foop shrink-swell swell box swell mob swell organ swell out swell the ranks swell up swell-headed swell-mobsman upswell wind swell

Context

music north america

Broader Terms (Hypernyms)

acquit act adult male arise bear behave carry come up comport conduct crescendo deport develop do elevation expand grow increase man moving ridge natural elevation originate rise rise up spring up surface uprise wave

Type Of (IsA)

crescendo natural elevation wave

Manner Of

act expand grow increase

Related Terms

arrogance balloon balloon up bloating bulge bulge larger crescendo diminuendo division elegant enclosed engorge enlarge enlarge painfully excellent expand fancy get greater good greater grow hillock huge huge wave inflammation larger ocean ocean wave ocean waves out painfully pipe organ protuberate puff puff out scrambled slang social sore standing stings surging surging waves terrain up volume wave waves well well in wells wells scrambled wind

Similar Terms

good

Synonym Network

bang up dandy toff well well up

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.