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Adjective: bellying
  1. Curving outward
    "I had thought the bellying of the sail had made the ship go faster"
    - bellied, bulbous, bulging, bulgy, protuberant
Verb: belly  be-lee
  1. Swell out or bulge out
    - belly out

See also: protrusive

Type of: intumesce, swell, swell up, tumefy, tumesce

Encyclopedia: Belly