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 Translation for 'to swell' from English to Russian
VERB   to swell | swelled | swollen / swelled
swelling | swells
SYNO beau | clotheshorse | crestless wave | ...
прибыть [о воде] [сов.]to swell [of water]
прибывать [о воде] [несов.]to swell [of water]
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Usage Examples English
  • The New Life Churches were made to feel unwelcome and nearly all left in the early 1990s to swell the pietist ranks of the PCA.
  • The captor then twisted a stick in the rope until it tightened and caused the man's wrists to swell.
  • The fluid is usually injected with an embalming machine into an artery under high pressure and flow, and allowed to swell and saturate the tissues.
  • Due to the use of the head to maintain position and attack in jiu-jitsu, the ears can easily be damaged and begin to swell.
  • More money was needed to accommodate additional students expected to swell the ranks of the school.

  • Using the wrong fluid can cause seals to swell or become corroded.
  • There are many theories about what causes the uvula to swell, including dehydration (e.g. ...
  • A significant number of seasonal residents causes the population to swell to over 700 during the summer.
  • Some criticisms of the membrane theory developed in the 1930s, based on observations such as the ability of some cells to swell and increase their surface area by a factor of 1000.
  • Woodford County's population continued to swell, standing at 13,281 when the American Civil War started in 1861.

  • They had spent the previous months plundering Greek cities to swell their war-chest.
  • A "heavy rain caused each grain to swell to enormous proportions," requiring the purchase of another fifty pounds of rice.
  • After being fertilised, the ovary starts to swell and develop into the fruit.
  • This is then dried under high heat, which causes the rest of the uncooked starch in glue to swell/gelatinize.
  • The development of the Brackla Housing Estate in the 1980s, housing developments at Broadlands to the south-west of the town centre and the continuing expansion of Brackla to the north-east have caused Bridgend's population to swell dramatically.

  • In Jamaica, heavy rainfall from the storm caused all rivers to swell.
  • This was used to swell the wooden axles of carts, and was a popular watering spot for carthorses.
  • Following Joseph Goebbels's earlier private decree to sell these degenerate works for foreign currency to fund the building of the Führermuseum and the wider war effort, Goering personally appointed a series of ERR-approved dealers including Hildebrand Gurlitt to liquidate these assets and then pass the funds to swell his personal art collection.
  • 'to swell, overfill'. Two translations have been suggested: the first is 'nest of snakes' and the second, less accepted one is 'place of the golden snake'.
  • The Communist Party was holding a general rally in the park against unemployment; Wilkinson records that they "generously gave way for an hour and asked their great audience to swell our Crusade meeting".

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