forswollen
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "mid-1400s, John Conlee (ed.), Prose Merlin, Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 1998, “The Tournament at Logres; King Lot and his Sons; and Morgan and Gyomar,” p. 285, line 315, “Ha, boyes!”" quod the kynge, “thow art fell and forswollen. […] ”"
- "Who tother day wyth arrowes kéene, haue nayled to the ground, The serpent Python so forswolne, whose filthie wombe did hide So many acres of the grounde in which he did abide."
- "Whilst hee that earst against the Sunne did beake His foreswolne poysonous bulke, doth vanquishd lie In his owne filth:"
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Inflected Forms
more forswollen (comparative)
most forswollen (superlative)