GeoFacts for Elmwood Park, IL. Elmwood Park, IL is a village located in the northeastern part of Illinois.
verb (used without object), swelled, swollen or swelled, swelling. 1. to grow in bulk, as by the absorption of moisture or the processes of growth. 2. Pathology. to increase abnormally in size, as by inflation, distention, accumulation of fluids, or the like: Her ankles swelled from standing. 3. to rise in waves, as the sea.
1 a swelling or an outward curve. 2 a sudden increase in number or volume, esp. of population. 3 (Brit) another name for â baby boom. 4 (Brit) the projecting part of an army's front line; salient. vb. 5 to swell outwards.