different between widening vs swelling

widening

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?wa?d?n??/

Adjective

widening (not comparable)

  1. Growing wider or farther apart.
    • 1920 — William Butler Yeats, The Second Coming

Noun

widening (plural widenings)

  1. The action of the verb widen.
    • 1887 — Robert Louis Stevenson, The Merry Men, Olalla

Translations

Verb

widening

  1. present participle of widen

Anagrams

  • indewing

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swelling

English

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /?sw?l.??/
  • Rhymes: -?l??

Noun

swelling (countable and uncountable, plural swellings)

  1. The state of being swollen.
  2. Anything swollen, especially any abnormally swollen part of the body.
  3. (figuratively) A rising, as of passion or anger.

Translations

Verb

swelling

  1. present participle of swell

See also

  • edema

Anagrams

  • Wellings, wellings

Middle English

Noun

swelling

  1. Alternative form of swellynge

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