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intumesce

Verb (intransitive)

in=tu=mesce

WORDNET DICTIONARY

intumesce(v = verb.motion) bubble up - 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"

is one way to come up, rise, rise up, surface

Sample sentence:
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intumesce(v = verb.change) swell, swell up, tumefy, tumesce - expand abnormally; "The bellies of the starving children are swelling"

is one way to expand

Derived forms noun intumescence₁, noun intumescency₁

Sample sentence:
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intumesce, v. i. [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. [1913 Webster]

"In a higher heat, it intumesces, and melts into a yellowish black mass." [1913 Webster]

intumesce, v.intr. swell up.

Derivative

intumescence n. intumescent adj.

Etymology

L intumescere (as IN-(2), tumescere incept. of tumere swell)

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