| VERB | change | swell up, swell, intumesce, tumefy, tumesce | expand abnormally |
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| Meaning | Expand abnormally. | |
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| Pattern | Something ----s | |
| Model | Did his feet swell up? | |
| Synonyms | swell, intumesce, tumefy, tumesce | |
| Caused by | swell | Cause to become swollen |
| Narrower | belly, belly out | Swell out or bulge out |
| blister, vesicate | Get blistered | |
| bloat | Become bloated or swollen or puff up | |
| distend | Swell from or as if from internal pressure | |
| puff, puff up, blow up, puff out | To swell or cause to enlarge, "Her faced puffed up from the drugs" | |
| Broader | expand | Become larger / larger in size or volume or quantity |
| Spanish | agrandarse, dilatarse, expandirse, hincharse, inflamarse, inflarse | |
| Catalan | dilatar-se, inflar-se | |
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