swollen

adj
/ˈswəʊ.lən/UK/ˈswoʊ.lən/US

Etymology

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”).

  1. derived from *swellaną — “to swell
  2. inherited from *swullanaz
  3. inherited from swollen
  4. inherited from swollen

Definitions

  1. Protuberant or abnormally distended (as by injury or disease).

    • swollen ankle
    • swollen knee
    • swollen salaries
  2. past participle of swell

The neighborhood

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.

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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.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA