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Upswell vs Unswell - What's the difference?

upswell | unswell |

As verbs the difference between upswell and unswell

is that upswell is to swell upward while unswell is to sink from a swollen state; to subside.

As a noun upswell

is a rising swell.

upswell

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A rising swell.
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    Verb

  • To swell upward.

    • unswell

    English

    Verb

  • (obsolete) To sink from a swollen state; to subside.
    • (Chaucer)
    (Webster 1913)