Synonyms of the word

bloat

• v. to cause to become distended.
• v. to fill soft substance with gas, water, etc.; to cause to swell.
• v. (intransitive) to become distended; to swell up.
• v. to fill with vanity or conceit.
• v. to preserve by slightly salting and lightly smoking.
• n. distention of the abdomen from death.
• n. (figuratively) wasteful use of space.
• n. (derogatory, slang, dated) A worthless, dissipated fellow.
• adj. (obsolete) bloated.

intumesce

• v. To swell or enlarge (abnormally).
• v. To bubble up (as the result of heating).

lump

• n. Something that protrudes, sticks out, or sticks together; a cluster or blob; a mound, hill, or group.
• n. A group, set, or unit.
• n. A small, shaped mass of sugar, typically about a teaspoonful.
• n. A dull or lazy person.
• n. (informal, as plural) A beating or verbal abuse.
• n. A projection beneath the breech end of a gun barrel.
• v. To treat as a single unit; to group together.

puffiness

• n. The state or quality of being puffy.

swell

• v. (intransitive) To become bigger, especially due to being engorged.
• v. (transitive) To cause to become bigger.
• v. (intransitive) To grow gradually in force or loudness.
• v. (transitive) To raise to arrogance; to puff up; to inflate.
• v. (intransitive) To be raised to arrogance.
• v. To be elated; to rise arrogantly.
• v. To be turgid, bombastic, or extravagant.
• v. To protuberate; to bulge out.
• n. The act of swelling.
• n. Increase of power in style, or of rhetorical force.
• n. A long series of ocean waves, generally produced by wind, and lasting after the wind has ceased.
• n. (music) A gradual crescendo followed by diminuendo.
• n. (music) A device for controlling the volume of a pipe organ.
• n. (music) A division in a pipe organ, usually the largest enclosed division.
• n. A hillock or similar raised area of terrain.
• n. (informal, dated) A person who is dressed in a fancy or elegant manner.
• n. (informal) A person of high social standing; an important person.
• adj. (Canada, US, informal, slang) Excellent.

swelling

• n. The state of being swollen.
• n. Anything swollen, especially any abnormally swollen part of the body.
• v. present participle of swell.

tumefy

• v. to cause to swell.

tumesce

• v. (intransitive) To become tumescent; to expand or inflate.