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Swollen vs Intumescence - What's the difference?

swollen | intumescence |

As an adjective swollen

is distended.

As a verb swollen

is .

As a noun intumescence is

(uncountable) the process of swelling up or the condition of being swollen.

swollen

English

Adjective

(more)
  • distended

    • Verb

    (head)

    • Anagrams

    * English adjectives ending in -en

    intumescence

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (uncountable) the process of swelling up or the condition of being swollen
  • (countable) an instance of such swelling
  • *1755 , , A Dictionary of the English Language , 10:
  • *:...but there are other causes of change, which, though slow in their operation, and invisible in their progress, are perhaps as much superior to human resistance, as the revolutions of the sky, or intumescence of the tide.

    • Related terms

    * intumescent