swollen

/ˈswoʊ.lən/

意味: 膨らんだ、腫れた

例文: Lena’s ankle was swollen after the fall.
　　  転倒後、レナの足首が腫れた。

言葉のよくある組み合わせ: swollen ankle(腫れた足首), swollen eyes(腫れた目), swollen river(増水した川)

定義: 何かが大きくなったり、膨らんだりしている状態を指します。通常、体の一部が炎症や怪我によって腫れているときに使われます。

swollenは約300,000語に1回程度の頻出度です。

Definitions(定義)

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: characteristic of false pride; having an exaggerated sense of self-importance

Parts of Speech(品詞)

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: a conceited fool
Adjective: an attitude of self-conceited arrogance
Adjective: an egotistical disregard of others
Adjective: so swollen by victory that he was unfit for normal duty
Adjective: growing ever more swollen-headed and arbitrary
Adjective: vain about her clothes

Synonyms/Antonyms(類語/反意語)

Synonyms(類語): conceited, egotistic, egotistical, intumesce, puff up, self-conceited, swell, swell up, swollen, swollen-headed, tumefy, tumesce, vain, well, well up

Antonyms(反意語):

Hypernyms/Hyponyms(上位語/下位語)

Hypernyms (General categories)(上位語): act, expand, grow, increase, originate, surface

Coordinate Terms(同じ上位語をもつもの): accrue, accumulate, act, act involuntarily, add, add to, appreciate, backslap, balloon, break down, broaden, bubble up, bungle, come, come forth, crescendo, culture, dally, emerge, explode, fall over backwards, follow, footle, freeze, frivol, gain, germinate, grow, head, hugger mugger, intensify, joke, make, make as if, menace, optimize, piffle, play, presume, pullulate, pyramid, quack, ramp, relax, resurface, resurge, romanticize, root, rotate, sauce, sentimentalise, shoot up, snowball, spike, stooge, swagger, swell, vegetate, vulgarize, wanton, wax, well, well up, widen

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

Derivationally Related Words(派生語)

Derivationally Related Words: egotism, egotist, intumescence, intumescency, swelling, tumefaction, tumescent, vanity

Categories(カテゴリー)

Domain Categories: psychology

Usage Category: common

Usage Context: descriptive, emotional

Grammatical Notes:
transitive verb

Prefixes/Suffixes(接頭辞/接尾辞)

Prefixes(接頭辞):

Suffixes(接尾辞): en

Exam Level

英検1級

Media Appearance(メディア登場例)

Books(洋書): Holes

Movies(映画):

Other Information(その他)

Is Abstract?(抽象的な言葉?) No

Is Emotion Word?(感情的な言葉?) Yes

Emotion Categories: negative