English-French translations for swell

gonfler
L'autre solution consisterait pour eux à gonfler les rangs des non-inscrits. Alternatively, they will swell the ranks of the non-inscrits. Les corticoïdes et autres hormones, qu'elles soient combinées ou pas, servent à gonfler les viandes. Corticoids and other hormones, used singly or in combination, cause meat to swell. Si nous voulons continuer à gonfler les rangs des antieuropéens, persévérons sur cette voie, chère Commission. If we want to continue to swell the ranks of anti-Europeanism, then carry on, Commission.
chouette

enfler
Un principe fondamental doit être de ne pas créer des structures faisant double emploi, et de ne pas laisser les structures de l'Union enfler inutilement. It must be a basic principle that structures are not created twice over and that the Union's structures do not swell needlessly.
houle
pétrir
sensas
sensass
Swell

To become bigger, especially due to being engorged
To cause to become bigger
To grow gradually in force or loudness
To raise to arrogance; to puff up; to inflate
To be raised to arrogance
To be elated; to rise arrogantly
To be turgid, bombastic, or extravagant
To protuberate; to bulge out
The act of swelling; increase in size
Increase of power in style, or of rhetorical force
A long series of ocean waves, generally produced by wind, and lasting after the wind has ceased
A gradual crescendo followed by diminuendo
A device for controlling the volume of a pipe organ
A hillock or similar raised area of terrain
An upward protrusion of strata from whose central region the beds dip quaquaversally at a low angle
A person of high social standing; an important person
Fashionable, like a swell or dandy
Excellent
Very well

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