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(satellite adjective) abnormally expanded or increased in size; (`swollen' is sometimes used in combination); "distended wineskins"; "the need to clean out swollen inventories"; "the raisins were plump and soft and swollen from being soaked"; "huge blood-swollen mosquitoes" |
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Synonyms: distended |
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(satellite adjective) overfull with water; "swollen rivers and creeks" |
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Synonyms: flooding, in flood, overflowing |
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(satellite adjective) abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas; "hungry children with bloated stomachs"; "he had a grossly distended stomach"; "eyes with puffed (or puffy) lids"; "swollen hands"; "tumescent tissue"; "puffy tumid flesh" |
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Synonyms: bloated, distended, puffed, puffy, tumescent, tumid |
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(satellite adjective) characteristic of false pride; having an exaggerated sense of self-importance; "a conceited fool"; "an attitude of self-conceited arrogance"; "an egotistical disregard of others"; "so swollen by victory that he was unfit for normal duty"; "growing ever more swollen-headed and arbitrary"; "vain about her clothes" |
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Synonyms: conceited, egotistic, egotistical, self-conceited, swollen-headed, vain |
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