Verb
1. increase in size, magnitude, number, or intensity;
"The music swelled to a crescendo"2. become filled with pride, arrogance, or anger;
"The mother was swelling with importance when she spoke of her son"3. expand abnormally;
"The bellies of the starving children are swelling"4. as of feelings and thoughts, or other ephemeral things;
"Strong emotions welled up""Smoke swelled from it"5. come up;
"Tears well in her eyes"6. cause to become swollen;
"The water swells the wood"