swell

/swɛl/

意味: 膨張、うねり

例文: The swell of the sea rocked the boat.
　　  海のうねりが船を揺らした。

言葉のよくある組み合わせ: swell up(膨れ上がる), swell with(〜で膨れる), swell to(〜に膨れる)

定義: 何かが大きくなることや膨らむことを指します。例えば、体の一部が腫れることや、音や感情が強くなることを表します。

swellは約200,000語に1回程度の頻出度です。

Definitions(定義)

Noun: the undulating movement of the surface of the open sea
Noun: a rounded elevation (especially one on an ocean floor)
Noun: a crescendo followed by a decrescendo
Noun: a man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance
Verb: increase in size, magnitude, number, or intensity
Verb: become filled with pride, arrogance, or anger
Verb: expand abnormally
Verb: come up (as of feelings and thoughts, or other ephemeral things)
Verb: come up, as of a liquid
Verb: cause to become swollen
Adjective: very good

Parts of Speech(品詞)

Noun, Verb, Adjective

Examples(例文)

Verb: The music swelled to a crescendo
Verb: The mother was swelling with importance when she spoke of her son
Verb: The bellies of the starving children are swelling
Verb: Strong emotions welled up
Verb: Smoke swelled from it
Verb: Tears well in her eyes
Verb: the currents well up
Verb: The water swells the wood
Adjective: he did a bully job
Adjective: a neat sports car
Adjective: had a great time at the party
Adjective: you look simply smashing

Synonyms/Antonyms(類語/反意語)

Synonyms(類語): bang-up, beau, bully, clotheshorse, corking, cracking, crestless wave, dandy, dude, fashion plate, fop, gallant, great, groovy, intumesce, keen, neat, nifty, not bad, peachy, puff up, sheik, slap-up, smashing, swell, swell up, tumefy, tumesce, well, well up

Antonyms(反意語):

Hypernyms/Hyponyms(上位語/下位語)

Hypernyms (General categories)(上位語): act, crescendo, expand, grow, increase, man, natural elevation, originate, surface, wave

Coordinate Terms(同じ上位語をもつもの): accrue, accumulate, act, act involuntarily, add, add to, adonis, appreciate, babu, bachelor, backslap, balloon, bey, billow, black man, boy, boyfriend, break down, broaden, bubble up, bull, bungle, comber, come, come forth, crescendo, culture, dally, dandy, ejaculator, emerge, esquire, eunuch, ex-boyfriend, ex-husband, explode, fall over backwards, father figure, father-figure, fellow, follow, footle, freeze, frivol, gain, galoot, geezer, gentleman, germinate, grass widower, grow, guy, head, herr, highland, hill, hooray henry, housefather, hugger mugger, hunk, inamorato, intensify, iron man, ironside, joke, lift, make, make as if, menace, middle-aged man, monsieur, mountain, old boy, old man, optimize, patriarch, peter pan, piffle, play, ponce, posseman, presume, promontory, pullulate, pyramid, quack, ramp, relax, resurface, resurge, ridge, ripple, roller, romanticize, root, rotate, sauce, senhor, sentimentalise, shaver, shoot up, signor, signore, sir, snowball, spike, stiff, stooge, stud, surf, swagger, swash, swell, tarzan, tidal wave, tsunami, vegetate, vulgarize, wake, wanton, wax, well, well up, white man, whitecap, widen, widower, womanizer, wonder boy, yellow man, young buck

Hyponyms (Specific examples)(下位語): belly, blister, bloat, bulge, coxcomb, distend, ground swell, macaroni, puff, tumefy

Derivationally Related Words(派生語)

Derivationally Related Words: dandify, intumescence, intumescency, swelling, tumefaction, tumescent

Categories(カテゴリー)

Domain Categories: psychology

Usage Category: common

Usage Context: conversation, descriptive, emotional

Grammatical Notes:
transitive verb

Prefixes/Suffixes(接頭辞/接尾辞)

Prefixes(接頭辞):

Suffixes(接尾辞):

Exam Level

英検準1級

Media Appearance(メディア登場例)

Books(洋書): Atomic Habits, Holes

Movies(映画):

Other Information(その他)

Is Abstract?(抽象的な言葉?) Yes

Is Emotion Word?(感情的な言葉?) No

Emotion Categories: