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• The timing in the heavy swell had to be carefully judged. swell swell 3 adjective American English old-fashioned GOOD/EXCELLENT very good SYN great You look swell! Examples from the Corpus swell • By noon, the swell at the Bay had built to eighteen to twenty feet. • But Dobler said he really was a swell guy. • It was a swell place to ...
Synonyms for SWELL: great, excellent, terrific, wonderful, lovely, awesome, fantastic, superb; Antonyms of SWELL: poor, terrible, awful, rotten, pathetic, wretched ...
3 [singular] a situation in which something increases in size, number, strength, etc. a growing swell of support a swell of pride see groundswell; 4 [singular] (of music or noise) a gradual increase in the volume of something synonym crescendo; 5 (old-fashioned) (informal) an important or fashionable person; See swell in the Oxford Advanced ...
swell something (to something) Last year's profits were swelled by a fall in production costs. Crowds of commuters were swelled by Christmas shoppers. We are looking for more volunteers to swell the ranks (= increase the number) of those already helping. swell (to something) Membership has swelled to over 20 000. opposite shrink
Sep 30, 2021 · Longer swell periods indicate a swell with deep-penetrating energy that will be forced to the surface when the swell approaches the coast, producing a wave up to one and a half times taller than the swell was over open water. This forcing up of energy by the ocean floor to create a much larger wave is referred to as groundswell .
Definition of swell noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
SWELL definition: 1. to increase in size: 2. to increase in amount because more things are added: 3. the movement…. Learn more.
