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SWELLING

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Traducere în limba română

swelling I. substantiv

1. umflare, îngroşare.

2. inflamare.

3. înălţime, loc înălţat.

4. Iărgire.

5. (în tâmplărie) scobitură, sinuozitate.

6. (fig.) izbucnire (a unei pasiuni).

swelling II. adjectiv

1. umflat.

2. inflamat.

3. (fig.) îngâmfat;

swelling like a turkey cock îngâmfat ca un păun.

4. (fig.) bombastic, emfatic.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

Signs and symptoms may include swelling around the affected joint and pain.

(Arthritis, NCI Thesaurus)

I apprehend, if you come to that, said Mr. Creakle, with his veins swelling again bigger than ever, that you've been in a wrong position altogether, and mistook this for a charity school.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

Catherine's swelling heart needed relief.

(Northanger Abbey, de Jane Austen)

While the rain continued it had seemed like the murmur of their voices, rising and swelling a little, now and then, with gusts of emotion.

(The Great Gatsby, de F. Scott Fitzgerald)

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