intumesce
Verb
-
Move upwards in bubbles, as from the effect of heating;
Also used metaphorically (synset 201994960)"Gases bubbled up from the earth"; "Marx's ideas have bubbled up in many places in Latin America"same as: bubble up -
Expand abnormally (synset 200257393)
"The bellies of the starving children are swelling"is a type of: expand - become larger in size or volume or quantitysubtypes:
Found on Word Lists
Other Searches
- Rhyme: Dillfrog, RhymeZone
- Definition: Wiktionary, Dictionary.com, Wikipedia, Merriam-Webster, WordNet, Power Thesaurus
- Imagery: Google, Flickr, Bing