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bulging
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective bulging has 2 senses
- bulging(a = adj.all) convex - curving or bulging outward; Array
- bulging(s = adj.all) bellied, bellying, bulbous, bulgy, protuberant - curving outward; Array
CIDE DICTIONARY
bulging, adj.
- curving or bulging outward. Opposite of
concave . [WordNet 1.5] - curving outward. [WordNet 1.5]
THESAURUS
bulging
SRO, bagging, baggy, ballooning, bellied, bellying, bellylike, billowing, billowy, bloated, bosomy, brimful, brimming, bulbose, bulbous, bumped, bumpy, bunched, bunchy, bursting, capacity, chock-full, chuck-full, congested, convex, cram-full, crammed, distended, farci, filled, flush, full, full to bursting, hillocky, hummocky, jam-packed, moutonnee, overfull, overstuffed, packed, packed like sardines, plenary, pneumatic, potbellied, pouching, ready to burst, replete, rotund, round, rounded, rounded out, satiated, saturated, soaked, standing room only, stuffed, surfeited, swelling, swollen, topful, verrucated, verrucose, warty
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