unswell

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Middle English unswellen, equivalent to un- +‎ swell.

Verb[edit]

unswell (third-person singular simple present unswells, present participle unswelling, simple past unswelled, past participle unswollen)

  1. (obsolete, intransitive) To cease from swelling; sink from a swollen state; subside.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for unswell”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)