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intumescent
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective intumescent has 1 sense
- intumescent(s = adj.all) puffy, tumescent, tumid, turgid - abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas; "hungry children with bloated stomachs"; "he had a grossly distended stomach"; "eyes with puffed (or puffy) lids"; "swollen hands"; "tumescent tissue"; "puffy tumid flesh" Derived forms noun intumescence1, noun intumescency1
CIDE DICTIONARY
intumescent, a. [L. intumescens, p. pr.].
Swelling up; expanding. [1913 Webster]
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