Definition of intumesce Intumesce
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What does intumesce mean?
WordNet
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| intumesce - expand abnormally; "The bellies of the starving children are swelling" | ||
| swell, swell up, tumefy, tumesce | ||
| expand become larger in size or volume or quantity; "his business expanded rapidly" | ||
| distend swell from or as if from internal pressure; "The distended bellies of the starving cows" | ||
| belly, belly out swell out or bulge out | ||
| puff out, puff up, blow up, puff make larger or distend; "The estimates were puffed up" | ||
| bloat become bloated or swollen or puff up; "The dead man's stomach was bloated" | ||
| vesicate, blister get blistered; "Her feet blistered during the long hike" | ||
| intumesce - 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" | ||
| bubble up | ||
| rise up, surface, come up, rise come to the surface | ||
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Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- intumesce (v. i.)
To enlarge or expand with heat; to swell; specifically, to swell up or bubble up under the action of heat, as before the blowpipe.
