Meaning

• To become bigger, especially due to being engorged.

• To cause to become bigger.

  "Rains and dissolving snow swell the rivers in spring."

• To grow gradually in force or loudness.

  "The organ music swelled."

• To raise to arrogance; to puff up; to inflate.

  "to be swelled with pride or haughtiness"

• To be raised to arrogance.

• To be elated; to rise arrogantly.

• To be turgid, bombastic, or extravagant.

  "swelling words  a swelling style"

• To protuberate; to bulge out.

  "A cask swells in the middle."