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reswollen

reswollen is the past participle of reswell.

Meaning of reswell

Verb

reswell (third-person singular simple present reswells, present participle reswelling, simple past reswelled, past participle reswollen or reswelled)

  1. To add liquid so as to cause a dried substance, such as a gel, to expand.
    • For membranes which have been dried out and reswollen, conditioning to the solvent is accomplished in a much shorter time than for the highly swollen cellulose.1949, CR Masson, HW Melville, “Osmometry of high polymer solutions”, in Journal of Polymer Science

Questions about reswollen

What is reswollen the past participle of?
Reswollen is the past participle of reswell.

Words near reswollen in the dictionary

  1. reswells
  2. reswept
  3. reswim
  4. reswimming
  5. reswims
  6. reswollen
  7. reswore
  8. resworn
  9. reswum
  10. resyllabification
  11. resyllabifications

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