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Meaning of intumesce


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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  intumesce
      v 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" [syn: {bubble up}, {intumesce}]
      2: expand abnormally; "The bellies of the starving children are
         swelling" [syn: {swell}, {swell up}, {intumesce}, {tumefy},
         {tumesce}]


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