Swollen vs Expanded - What's the difference?
swollen | expanded |
(expand)
(label) To change (something) from a smaller form and/or size to a larger one.
(label) To increase the extent, number, volume or scope of (something).
* (John Milton) (1608-1674)
(label) To express (something) at length and/or in detail.
To rewrite (an expression) as a longer, yet equivalent sum of terms.
To multiply both the numerator and the denominator of a fraction by the same natural number yielding a fraction of equal value
(label) To (be) change(d) from a smaller form/size to a larger one.
(label) To (be) increase(d) in extent, number, volume or scope.
(label) To speak or write at length or in detail.
*{{quote-book, year=1899, author=(Stephen Crane)
, title=, chapter=1
, passage=There was some laughter, and Roddle was left free to expand his ideas on the periodic visits of cowboys to the town. “Mason Rickets, he had ten big punkins a-sittin' in front of his store, an' them fellers from the Upside-down-F ranch shot 'em up […].”}}
(label) To feel generous or optimistic.
As verbs the difference between swollen and expanded
is that swollen is while expanded is (expand).As an adjective swollen
is distended.expanded
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(head)expand
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(en verb)- Then with expanded wings he steers his flight.