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For the verb: "to swell"
Simple Past: swelled
Past Participle: swollen, swelled

Concise Oxford Paravia Italian Dictionary © 2009 Pearson Paravia Bruno Mondadori spa e Oxford University Press:
1. swell /swel/
  1. n.
    1. (of waves) onda f. morta
    1. mus. crescendo m. seguito da diminuendo
    1. (of belly) rotondità f.
  1. agg. AE ant. colloq.
    1. (smart) [car, outfit] di classe, alla moda;
      [restaurant] alla moda, chic;
      to look ~ essere elegantissimo
    1. (great) formidabile, meraviglioso.
2. swell /swel/
  1. tr. (pass. swelled; p.pass. swollen, swelled)
    1. (increase) ingrossare, accrescere [population];
      aumentare, ingrossare [membership, number];
      gonfiare [bank balance, figures]
    1. (fill) [wind] gonfiare [sail];
      [floodwater] ingrossare, gonfiare [river]
  1. intr. (pass. swelled; p.pass. swollen, swelled)
    1. (expand) [fruit, sail, stomach] gonfiarsi;
      [dried fruit, wood] dilatarsi, gonfiarsi;
      [ankle, gland] gonfiare, gonfiarsi;
      [river] ingrossarsi;
      her heart ~ed with pride aveva il cuore gonfio di orgoglio
    1. (increase) [crowd, population] crescere, aumentare;
      [prices] gonfiarsi, aumentare, salire;
      to ~ to 20,000 salire o arrivare a 20.000
    1. (grow louder) [music, sound] diventare più forte, aumentare di volume
    1. (ooze) [liquid] colare (from, out of da).

Phrasal verbs:
swell out: ~ [sth.] out, ~ out [sth.] [wind] gonfiare [sails]. swell up [ankle, finger] gonfiare, gonfiarsi.

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swell: WordReference English-Italiano Dictionary © 2012

swell (geogr. Weather)onda di marea nf
swell (guy concerned with his elegance) pezzo grossoelegantone adj
swell gonfiare, anat.gonfiarsi v
swell molto bellobellissimo adj
swell (music)crescendo nm
swell rigonfiaregonfiare v
swell gonfiarsiaumentare v
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swell: WordReference English-Italiano Dictionary © 2012

Compound Forms/Forme composte
ground swellonde su fondali bassi
ground swell of oppositionn (movement of public opinion against sth)sollevazione popolare nf
ground-swellda onde, da frangenti
increase, swell aumentarecrescere v
swell upgonfiarsi
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Forum discussions with the word(s) 'swell' in the title:
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a hell of a big swell
Can cause the lining of the lung to swell
rolling swell
Swell shut
Swell the skin
swell to great - swell unison
the swell in ventura before I start to zone out
to swell up
wake and swell

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