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INTUMESCE

Definition:

1. [verb] move upwards in bubbles, as from the effect of heating; also used metaphorically; "Gases bubbled up from the earth"; "Marx's ideas have bubbled up in many places in Latin America"
   Synonyms: bubble up
   
   
2. [verb] expand abnormally; "The bellies of the starving children are swelling"
   Synonyms: swell, swell up, tumefy, tumesce
   
   

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Related Words:

• distend
• belly, belly out
• puff, puff up, blow up, puff out
• bloat
• blister, vesicate

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