Synonyms of the word intumesce


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intumesce

  • v. To swell or enlarge (abnormally).
  • v. To bubble up (as the result of heating).

expand

  • v. (transitive) To change (something) from a smaller form and/or size to a larger one.
  • v. (transitive) To increase the extent, number, volume or scope of (something).
  • v. (transitive) To express (something) at length and/or in detail.
  • v. (transitive, algebra) To rewrite (an expression) as a longer, yet equivalent sum of terms.
  • v. (transitive, arithmetic) To multiply both the numerator and the denominator of a fraction by the same…
  • v. (intransitive) To (be) change(d) from a smaller form/size to a larger one.
  • v. (intransitive) To (be) increase(d) in extent, number, volume or scope.
  • v. (intransitive) To speak or write at length or in detail.
  • v. (intransitive) To feel generous or optimistic.

rise

  • v. (intransitive) To move, or appear to move, physically upwards relative to the ground.
  • v. (intransitive) To increase in value or standing.
  • v. To begin; to develop.
  • v. (transitive) To go up; to ascend; to climb.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to go up or ascend.
  • v. (obsolete) To retire; to give up a siege.
  • v. To come; to offer itself.
  • v. (printing, dated) To be lifted, or capable of being lifted, from the imposing stone without dropping any…
  • n. The process of or an action or instance of moving upwards or becoming greater.
  • n. The process of or an action or instance of coming to prominence.
  • n. (chiefly Britain) An increase (in a quantity, price, etc).
  • n. The amount of material extending from waist to crotch in a pair of trousers or shorts.
  • n. (Britain, Ireland, Australia) An increase in someone's pay rate; a raise (US).
  • n. (Sussex) A small hill; used chiefly in place names.
  • n. An area of terrain that tends upward away from the viewer, such that it conceals the region behind it;…
  • n. (informal) An angry reaction.
  • n. Alternative form of rice (“twig”).

surface

  • n. The overside or up-side of a flat object such as a table, or of a liquid.
  • n. The outside hull of a tangible object.
  • n. (figuratively) Outward or external appearance.
  • n. (mathematics, geometry) The locus of an equation (especially one with exactly two degrees of freedom)…
  • n. (fortification) That part of the side which is terminated by the flank prolonged, and the angle of the…
  • v. (transitive) To provide something with a surface.
  • v. (transitive) To apply a surface to something.
  • v. (intransitive) To rise to the surface.
  • v. (intransitive) To come out of hiding.
  • v. (intransitive) For information or facts to become known.
  • v. (intransitive) To work a mine near the surface.
  • v. (intransitive) To appear or be found.

swell

  • v. (intransitive) To become bigger, especially due to being engorged.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to become bigger.
  • v. (intransitive) To grow gradually in force or loudness.
  • v. (transitive) To raise to arrogance; to puff up; to inflate.
  • v. (intransitive) To be raised to arrogance.
  • v. To be elated; to rise arrogantly.
  • v. To be turgid, bombastic, or extravagant.
  • v. To protuberate; to bulge out.
  • n. The act of swelling.
  • n. Increase of power in style, or of rhetorical force.
  • n. A long series of ocean waves, generally produced by wind, and lasting after the wind has ceased.
  • n. (music) A gradual crescendo followed by diminuendo.
  • n. (music) A device for controlling the volume of a pipe organ.
  • n. (music) A division in a pipe organ, usually the largest enclosed division.
  • n. A hillock or similar raised area of terrain.
  • n. (informal, dated) A person who is dressed in a fancy or elegant manner.
  • n. (informal) A person of high social standing; an important person.
  • adj. (Canada, US, informal, slang) Excellent.

tumefy

  • v. to cause to swell.

tumesce

  • v. (intransitive) To become tumescent; to expand or inflate.

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