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English verb: intumesce | |||
| 1. | intumesce (motion) move upwards in bubbles, as from the effect of heating; also used metaphorically | ||
| Samples | Gases bubbled up from the earth. Marx's ideas have bubbled up in many places in Latin America. | ||
| Synonyms | bubble up | ||
| Pattern of use | Something ----s | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | come up, rise, rise up, surface | ||
| 2. | intumesce (change) expand abnormally | ||
| Samples | The bellies of the starving children are swelling. | ||
| Synonyms | swell, swell up, tumefy, tumesce | ||
| Pattern of use | Something ----s | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | expand | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | belly, belly out, blister, bloat, blow up, distend, puff, puff out, puff up, vesicate | ||
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