Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To cease from swelling.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To sink from a swollen state; to subside.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb obsolete, intransitive To
sink from aswollen state; tosubside .
Etymologies
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swell
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Examples
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You see, I had had my boots off, to unswell my feet, and just then I took up one of them to put it on, and I catched a glimpse of the heelbottom, and it just took my breath away.
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I had had my boots off, to unswell my feet, and just then I took up one of them to put it on, and I catched a glimpse of the heel-bottom, and it just took my breath away.
Tom Sawyer, Detective Mark Twain 1872
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