Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To swell or expand; enlarge.
- v. To bubble up, especially from the effect of heating.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To enlarge or expand, as with heat; swell up; become tumid.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To enlarge or expand with heat; to swell; specifically, to swell up or bubble up under the action of heat, as before the blowpipe.
WordNet 3.0
- v. expand abnormally
- v. move upwards in bubbles, as from the effect of heating; also used metaphorically
Etymologies
- From Latin intumēscō. (Wiktionary)
- Latin intumēscere : in-, intensive pref.; see in-2 + tumēscere, to begin to swell, inchoative of tumēre, to swell; see teuə- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The first two are evident, as when it fuses it runs into a globule; the last, by inspecting it before and after the heating with a magnifying glass; sometimes it froths up when heated, and is then said to "intumesce;" or, if it flies to fragments, "decrepitates.”
“Upon exposure to fire, the material begins to intumesce (expand rapidly) in response to heat by beginning a process of evaporative cooling and charring on the surface of the coating.”
“I looked downbound at myself - but because it was so Stygian in m shack I could wager null another than the lightning gleaming cloth reaching from my intumesce button.”
“The lonely botheration is that Ilosone haw be peaked unexceptionable in galore ladies who accept farewell fondness or intumesce irritation.”
“By limiting your venture you module never hit a rattling intense intumesce ache.”
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Specifically
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Bubbles
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Verba Dilecta
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rememberers
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foamy swills
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To Grow, Enlarge or Increase
Verbs meaning grow, enlarge or increase
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Swell (verb)
Words meaning swell (verb).
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