Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

swell the ranks

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.54 in modern English

Syllables: swell the ranks
IPA

23

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

1

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To add significant numbers of members (to a group).

Example Sentences

"All through the Empire the unskilled labourer is the one who feels the stress of hard times, when they do come, the most, and it is this class that goes very largely to swell the ranks of the unemployed."
"Virtually all of them will swell the ranks of law-abiding, industrious, self-sufficient and successful young Americans, while the numbers among the wayward lawless, dependent, and destitute are noticeably reduced."
"To these must, accordingly, be added some one hundred more companies, not qualifying for consolidation, but which, nevertheless, swell the ranks of the Generali Group-owned companies."

Inflected Forms

swells the ranks (present, singular) swelling the ranks (participle, present) swelled the ranks (past) swelled the ranks (participle, past) swollen the ranks (participle, past)

Questions

What does swell the ranks mean?: To add significant numbers of members (to a group).

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