intumesce

Verb

Meaning

To enlarge or expand with heat; to swell; specifically, to swell up or bubble up under the action of heat, as before the blowpipe.

Source: Webster's dictionary

swell tumefy swell up bubble up tumesce expand balloon belly amplify augment bulge swollen fill out bloat swelling

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deflate reduce contract decline thin narrow

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surface rise expand come up rise up

belly puff blister bloat blow up distend

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ecumenist

Gases bubbled up from the earth Source: Internet

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

The bellies of the starving children are swelling Source: Internet

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