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bulge

Nouns

• (n) something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings
  • the gun in his pocket made an obvious bulge
  • the hump of a camel
  • he stood on the rocky prominence
  • the occipital protuberance was well developed
  • the bony excrescence between its horns
  excrescence, extrusion, gibbosity, gibbousness, hump, jut, protrusion, protuberance, bump, swelling, prominence,

Verbs

• (v) swell or protrude outwards
  • His stomach bulged after the huge meal
  pouch, protrude,
• (v) bulge out; form a bulge outward, or be so full as to appear to bulge bag,
• (v) bulge outward
  • His eyes popped
  bug out, bulge out, pop, pop out, protrude, come out, start,
• (v) cause to bulge or swell outwards bulk,

Synonyms

excrescence extrusion gibbosity gibbousness hump jut protrusion protuberance bump swelling prominence pouch protrude bag bug out bulge out pop pop out come out start bulk

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