Read the excerpt from paragraph 5 of "How Theseus Lifted the Stone."

And Theseus went into the thicket, and stood over the stone, and tugged at it; and it moved. Then his spirit swelled within him, and he said, 'If I break my heart in my body, it shall up.' And he tugged at it once more, and lifted it, and rolled it over with a shout.

Which word reflects the same connotative meaning as the word swelled in the sentence?

A.
expanded
B.
strengthened
C.
inflated
D.
developed