And sadly, the founders of the Black Lives Matter movement are the latst to adopt this pernicious strategy. They seek to deny black men the right and honor that so many have died for â to be good husbands to their wives and good fathers to their children,â Warren wrote.
To swell is to expand or grow larger. If your brother's face started to swell after he ate lobster for the first time, you'd probably guess that he's allergic to shellfish.
early 13c., a morbid swelling, from swell (v.). In reference to a rise of the sea, it is attested from c.1600. The meaning wealthy, elegant person is first recorded 1786; hence the adjectival meaning fashionably dressed or equipped (1810), both from the notion of puffed-up, pompous behavior.