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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun hypertrophy has 1 sense

• hypertrophy(n = noun.state) Array - abnormal enlargement of a body part or organ; Array
is a kind of dysplasia
has particulars: adenomegaly, cor pulmonale, dactylomegaly, elephantiasis, splenomegaly, giantism, gigantism, overgrowth, acromegalia, acromegaly
Derived form verb hypertrophy₁

Verb hypertrophy has 1 sense

• hypertrophy(v = verb.body) Array - undergo hypertrophy; "muscles can hypertrophy when people take steroids"
is one way to grow
Derived form noun hypertrophy₁
Sample sentence:
Did his feet hypertrophy?

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THESAURUS

hypertrophy

abandon, blossom, boundlessness, brew, burgeon, develop, egregiousness, enormousness, exaggeration, excess, excessiveness, exorbitance, exorbitancy, extravagance, extravagancy, extreme, extremes, extremism, extremity, fabulousness, flourish, gather, germinate, giantism, gigantism, gluttony, grow, grow up, hyperbole, immoderacy, immoderateness, immoderation, incontinence, increase, inordinacy, inordinance, inordinateness, intemperance, intemperateness, mature, monstrousness, mushroom, nimiety, outgrow, outrageousness, outsize, overdevelop, overdevelopment, overgreatness, overgrow, overgrowth, overindulgence, overlargeness, overmuch, overmuchness, overtop, overweight, procreate, pullulate, radicalism, reproduce, shoot up, spring up, sprout, sprout up, thrive, too much, too-muchness, tower, unconscionableness, undueness, unreasonableness, unrestrainedness, upshoot, upspear, upspring, upsprout, vegetate, wax

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hypertrophy

Expansion

N expansion, increase of size, enlargement, extension, augmentation, amplification, ampliation, aggrandizement, spread, increment, growth, development, pullulation, swell, dilation, rarefaction, turgescence, turgidness, turgidity, dispansion, obesity, hydrocephalus, hydrophthalmus, dropsy, tumefaction, intumescence, swelling, tumor, diastole, distension, puffing, puffiness, inflation, pandiculation, dilatability, expansibility, germination, growth, upgrowth, accretion, budding, gemmation, overgrowth, overdistension, hypertrophy, tympany, bulb, plumper, superiority of size, big bang, Hubble constant, expanded larger, &c (large), swollen, expansive, wide open, wide spread, flabelliform, overgrown, exaggerated, bloated, fat, turgid, tumid, hypertrophied, dropsical, pot bellied, swag bellied, edematous, oedematous, obese, puffy, pursy, blowzy, bigswoln, distended, patulous, bulbous, full blown, full grown, full formed, big, abdominous, enchymatous, rhipidate, tumefacient, tumefying.

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