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Overextended, in a way
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swollen
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES swollen/high (= containing more water than usual ) ▪ After the rains, the river was swollen. ▪ The river was high and running quite swiftly. II. adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN lip ▪ Her swollen lips burned and ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. very good; "he did a bully job"; "a neat sports car"; "had a great time at the party"; "you look simply smashing" [syn: bang-up , bully , corking , cracking , dandy , great , groovy , keen , neat , nifty , not bad(p) , peachy , slap-up , smashing ] ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Swollen \Swoll"en\, p. p. of Swell .
Usage examples of swollen.
She was always so self-contained, so immaculate, so perfectly poised and turned out that his need to see her with her mouth swollen after love, her hair tangled by his fingers, her eyes languorous and heavy, her breathing quickened, sharp and desirous, was sometimes so great that he ached to reach out and take hold of her.
There were deep circles under his eyes, his skin was red and swollen from the acne that ran across it.
Her nipples had a lovely pouty shape, their areolas swollen though not erect.
The entire arm above the injury was badly swollen, but the hand was still normal size, although it looked shrunken and atrophic in comparison.
Still blindfolded, I fumbled with my swollen, numb fingers to find my cock.
The little girl looked up at Bonhomme, her swollen face wet with tears.
The bruised plant has been applied externally for healing ulcers, burns, whitlows, and for the mitigation of swollen piles.
High fever, swollen tongue, intoxication of the nervous system, buboes under the arms and in the groin.
The stumps looked swollen and he knew Jojo was eating painkillers like sweets, on top of his usual bucketful of alcohol a day.
Ricky followed him as he walked past the cattle pen and the cesspit, still brimming with its nauseous contents, swollen by the rains, to the barns where his father might have buried the family treasures to save them from marauders.
South Coquille grew more swollen with every mile they slogged, as streamlets joined in from the enclosing hills.
When Eny saw the big cuddlesome lump collapsed on her bed, crying night and day, her face swollen and ill-looking, scarcely able to speak for grief, her impulse might have been to shake the girl till her teeth bounced in her head.
Truth to tell, he was so dehydrated, his lips so swollen and cracked, his tongue such a useless slab of overcooked meat, that anyone else listening would have been able to discern nothing much beyond inarticulate grunts.
The strange immobility of his swollen cheeks denaturalized his broad, good face, all the features of which disappeared under the dead, bluish mask.
The chemical creates the disabling pathology that gives this stuff its name, a wet-looking, bleary, teary, swollen eyeball that can no longer focus--hence, Wet Eye.