swell in Malay
membengkak
/swɛl/
swell in Malay: membengkak. In English, swell means to become larger, fuller, or rounder, or expand in size or shape, usually as a result of pressure from within.
Malay words for swell
- intransitive: to become bigger, especially due to being engorged
- membengkak
English meaning of swell
- verb To become larger, fuller, or rounder, or expand in size or shape, usually as a result of pressure from within.
- verb To cause to become bigger.
- verb To grow gradually in force or loudness.
- verb To cause to grow gradually in force or loudness.
swell in a sentence
- My ankles had swelled in the heat.
- Rains and dissolving snow swell the rivers in spring.
- The organ music swelled.
Synonyms of swell
- balloon
- distend
- dandy
- dude
- toff
- carpet knight
- dood
- fashionable
- fast man
- fine gentleman
- fop
- fribble
swell in other languages
- swell in Hindi
- swell in Tamil
- swell in Marathi
- swell in Urdu
- swell in Bengali
- swell in Telugu
- swell in Malayalam
- swell in Kannada
- swell in Punjabi
- swell in Gujarati
- swell in Sanskrit
- swell in Sinhala
- swell in Assamese
- swell in Arabic
- swell in Indonesian
- swell in Persian
- swell in Thai
- swell in Vietnamese
Questions about swell in Malay
- What is the meaning of swell in Malay?
- Swell in Malay is membengkak.
- Apakah maksud swell dalam bahasa Melayu?
- Swell: membengkak.
- What does swell mean in English?
- Swell means to become larger, fuller, or rounder, or expand in size or shape, usually as a result of pressure from within.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: swell (page history and authors), its translation table and English meanings. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the Malay words and English meanings and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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