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  • adjective Not swollen.

Etymologies

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un- +‎ swollen

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Examples

  • They seemed new, their edges unswollen by the abuse of many fingers as they sat in a neat, flat brick.

    TOO MANY MURDERS Colleen McCullough 2009

  • The cause of the swelling is not encapsulated like a cyst—the edges simply fuse into unswollen tissue all around.

    Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

  • The cause of the swelling is not encapsulated like a cyst—the edges simply fuse into unswollen tissue all around.

    Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

  • The poet moved awkwardly, like a man gout-plagued, but his joints, so far as Maati could make them out within the brown robes, were unswollen.

    A Shadow in Summer 2006

  • When it started to unswollen, when I opened my mouth the feeling it had was like if my jaw was dislocating.

    EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - My face hole 2006

  • Starch grains swollen to the bursting point with water or heat, such as those in a boiled or baked potato, are more easily digested than the relatively unswollen starch grains found in brown rice.

    Eat, Drink, and Be Healthy M.D. Walter C. Willett 2005

  • Starch grains swollen to the bursting point with water or heat, such as those in a boiled or baked potato, are more easily digested than the relatively unswollen starch grains found in brown rice.

    Eat, Drink, and Be Healthy M.D. Walter C. Willett 2005

  • Arskane made no move, but his one unswollen eye calmly measured the High Chief with a control Fors admired.

    Daybreak 2250 AD Norton, Andre 1952

  • Arskane made no move, but his one unswollen eye calmly measured the High Chief with a control Fors admired.

    Daybreak 2250 AD Norton, Andre 1952

  • As the direction of this hernia is immediately from behind forwards, the inguinal canal near the internal ring is found empty, unswollen.

    Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise

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