intumesce
v.
swell up, become enlarged; bubble up
intumesce
Verb
1. 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"
(synonym) bubble up
(hypernym) surface, come up, rise up, rise
2. expand abnormally; "The bellies of the starving children are swelling"
(synonym) swell, swell up, tumefy, tumesce
(hypernym) expand
(hyponym) distend
(derivation) intumescence, intumescency
intumescer
v.
intumesce, swell; bag; tumefy
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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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