Houses do fall, people are drowned and left rotting, but the general outline of the town persists, swelling here, shrinking there, like some low but indestructible form of life.
E. M. Forster, A Passage to India
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— something that is swollen
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Macmillan
— an area of your body that has increased in size as a result of an injury or an illness
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Collins
— A swelling is a raised, curved shape on the surface of your body which appears as a result of an injury or an illness.
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1 use of ‘swelling’ in A Passage to India, by E. M. Forster