Meaning of INTUMESCE
| Pronunciation: | | `intû'mes
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- [v] expand abnormally; "The bellies of the starving children are swelling"
- [v] 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"
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| | Synonyms: | | bubble up, swell, swell up, tumefy |
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| | See Also: | | belly, belly out, blister, bloat, blow up, come up, distend, expand, puff, puff out, puff up, rise, rise up, surface, vesicate | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \In`tu*mesce"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Intumesced}; p.
pr. & vb. n. {Intumescing}.] [L. intumescere; pref. in- in +
tumescere to swell up, incho. fr. tumere to swell. See
{Tumid}.]
To enlarge or expand with heat; to swell; specifically, to
swell up or bubble up under the action of heat, as before the
blowpipe.
In a higher heat, it intumesces, and melts into a
yellowish black mass. --Kirwan.
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