swollen

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   Protuberant or abnormally distended (as by injury or disease).

   swollen ankle

2. 2
   adj

   characteristic of false pride

3. 3
   verb

   past participle of swell

Etymology

From Middle English swollen, i-swolle, y-swolle, yswolle, ȝeswollen, from Old English swollen, ġeswollen, from Proto-Germanic *swullanaz, past participle of Proto-Germanic *swellaną (“to swell”). Cognate with West Frisian swollen (“swollen”), Dutch gezwollen (“swollen”), German geschwollen (“swollen”), Swedish svullen (“swollen”).