Definition of intumesce
English to English verb - 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.
source: WordNet 3.0 - expand abnormally
The bellies of the starving children are swelling.
source: WordNet 3.0 - To enlarge or expand with heat; to swell; specifically, to swell up or bubble up under the action of heat, as before the blowpipe.
source: Webster 1913
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intumesce, intimacy, innitency, innateness, imminentness, indamage, indenize, inanimateness, indonesia, indian mongoose, immediateness, imitancy, india ink, in hiding
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