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swellings

swellings is the plural of swelling.

Meaning of swelling

Noun

swelling (countable and uncountable, plural swellings)

  1. The state of being swollen.
    • Ne take noon hede to brynge togidere þe parties of þe boon þat is to-broken or dislocate, til viij. daies ben goon in þe wyntir, & v. in þe somer; for þanne it schal make quytture, and be sikir from swellynge; & þanne brynge togidere þe brynkis eiþer þe disiuncture after þe techynge þat schal be...a1420, The British Museum Additional MS, 12,056, “Wounds complicated by the Dislocation of a Bone”, in Robert von Fleischhacker, editor, Lanfranc's "Science of cirurgie.", London: K. Paul, Trench...
  2. Anything swollen, especially any abnormally swollen part of the body.
  3. (figuratively) A rising, as of passion or anger.

Phrases with swellings

Questions about swellings

What is swellings the plural of?
Swellings is the plural of swelling.

Words near swellings in the dictionary

  1. swelling tape
  2. swelling tapes
  3. swelling the ranks
  4. swelling up
  5. swellingly
  6. swellings
  7. swellish
  8. swellishness
  9. swellmobsman
  10. swellmobsmen
  11. swellness

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