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INTUMESCE

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 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Expand abnormally

Example:

The bellies of the starving children are swelling

Synonyms:

intumesce; swell; swell up; tumefy; tumesce

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "intumesce" is one way to...):

expand (become larger in size or volume or quantity)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "intumesce"):

distend (swell from or as if from internal pressure)

belly; belly out (swell out or bulge out)

blow up; puff; puff out; puff up (to swell or cause to enlarge)

bloat (become bloated or swollen or puff up)

blister; vesicate (get blistered)

Sentence frame:

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Derivation:

intumescence; intumescency (swelling up with blood or other fluids (as with congestion))

Sense 2

Meaning:

Move upwards in bubbles, as from the effect of heating; also used metaphorically

Example:

Marx's ideas have bubbled up in many places in Latin America

Synonyms:

bubble up; intumesce

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "intumesce" is one way to...):

come up; rise; rise up; surface (come to the surface)

Sentence frame:

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