| Main Entry: | distention |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | inflation |
Synonyms: |
bloating, bulge, enlargement, expansion, increase |
| Main Entry: | bulge |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | swollen object |
Synonyms: |
appendage, bagginess, blob, bump, bunch, bunching, convexity, dilation, distention, excess, excrescence, gibbosity, growth, hump, intumescence, jut, lump, nodulation, nodule, outgrowth, outthrust, projection, prominence, promontory, protrusion, protuberance, sac, sagging, salience, salient, superfluity, swelling, tuberosity, tumefaction, tumor, wart |
Antonyms: |
depression |
| Main Entry: | rise |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | increase, improvement |
Synonyms: |
acceleration, accession, accretion, addition, advance, advancement, aggrandizement, ascent, augmentation, boost, breakthrough, climb, distention, doubling, enlargement, growth, heightening, hike, increment, inflation, intensification, intensifying, multiplication, piling up, progress, promotion, raise, stacking up, step-up, surge, swell, upgrade, upsurge, upswing, upturn, waxing |
| Notes: | to raise is 'to bring something up'; to rise is 'to get up' |
Antonyms: |
decline, decrease, drop, fall, slump, worsening |
| Main Entry: | stress |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | physical or mental pressure |
Synonyms: |
affliction, agony, alarm, albatross, anxiety, apprehensiveness, burden, clutch, crunch, disquiet, disquietude, distention, draw, dread, expectancy, extension, fear, fearfulness, ferment, flutter, force, hardship, hassle, heat, impatience, intensity, misgiving, mistrust, nervous tension, nervousness, oppression, overextension, passion, protraction, pull, restlessness, spring, strain, stretch, tautness, tenseness, tension, tensity, tightness, traction, trauma, trepidation, trial, urgency, worry |
Antonyms: |
indifference, relaxation |
| Main Entry: | swelling |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | physical growth; lump |
Synonyms: |
abscess, blister, boil, bruise, bulge, bump, bunion, carbuncle, contusion, corn, dilation, distention, enlargement, hump, increase, inflammation, injury, knob, knurl, node, nodule, pimple, pock, protuberance, puff, puffiness, pustule, ridge, sore, tumescence, tumor, wale, wart, weal, welt |
Antonyms: |
depression |