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overswollen

overswollen adjective: excessively swollen or puffed up.

Adjective

overswollen (comparative more overswollen, superlative most overswollen)

  1. Excessively swollen or puffed up.
    • He's scornful of her big, overswollen ego and her big overswollen movie ideas. But he'll scavenge off her leavings.2012, C. Stephen Jaeger, Enchantment: On Charisma and the Sublime in the Arts of the West

Forms of overswollen

comparativemore overswollen
superlativemost overswollen

Origin of overswollen

From over- + swollen.

Questions about overswollen

What does overswollen mean?
Overswollen means excessively swollen or puffed up.
What part of speech is overswollen?
Overswollen is an adjective.

Words near overswollen in the dictionary

  1. overswings
  2. overswirl
  3. overswirled
  4. overswirling
  5. overswirls
  6. overswollen
  7. overswore
  8. oversworn
  9. overswum
  10. overswung
  11. oversymmetrical

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