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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