INTUMESCE

• (verb) expand abnormally

  "The bellies of the starving children are swelling"

  synonyms : swell , swell up , tumefy , tumesce

• (verb) 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"

  synonyms : bubble up

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