intumesce (v.)

  1. move upwards in bubbles, as from the effect of heating; also used metaphorically; Gases bubbled up from the earth; Marxs ideas have bubbled up in many places in Latin America

    [ Syn: bubble up ]

  2. expand abnormally; The bellies of the starving children are swelling

    [ Syn: swell , swell up , tumefy , tumesce ]

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