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TUMESCE
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Expand abnormally
Example:
The bellies of the starving children are swelling
Synonyms:
intumesce; swell; swell up; tumefy; tumesce
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "tumesce" is one way to...):
expand (become larger in size or volume or quantity)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "tumesce"):
distend (swell from or as if from internal pressure)
belly; belly out (swell out or bulge out)
blow up; puff; puff out; puff up (to swell or cause to enlarge)
bloat (become bloated or swollen or puff up)
blister; vesicate (get blistered)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Derivation:
tumescent (abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas)
