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.
For the thoroughbred racehorse, see Ocean Swell. A swell, in the context of an ocean, sea or lake, is a series of mechanical waves that propagate along the interface between water and air and so they are often referred to as surface gravity waves.