swollen
adjEtymology
From Middle English swollen, i-swolle, y-swolle, yswolle, ȝeswollen, from Old English swollen, ġeswollen, from Proto-Germanic *swullanaz, past participle of Proto-Germanic *swellaną (“to swell”). Cognate with West Frisian swollen (“swollen”), Dutch gezwollen (“swollen”), German geschwollen (“swollen”), Swedish svullen (“swollen”).
- inherited from *swullanaz✻
- inherited from swollen
- inherited from swollen
Definitions
Protuberant or abnormally distended (as by injury or disease).
- swollen ankle
- swollen knee
- swollen salaries
past participle of swell
The neighborhood
- antonymcontracted
- antonymdeflated
- antonymnonswollen
- antonymshrunken
- antonymshrivelled
- antonymtabid
- antonymunswollen
- antonymwizened
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at swollen. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at swollen. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
8 hops · closes at swollen
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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