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Verb: intumesce  `in-tû'mes
  1. Move upwards in bubbles, as from the effect of heating; also used metaphorically
    "Gases intumesced from the earth"
    - bubble up
     
  2. Expand abnormally
    "The bellies of the starving children are intumescing"
    - swell, swell up, tumefy, tumesce

Derived forms: intumesces, intumesced, intumescing

See also: intumescency

Type of: come up, expand, rise, rise up, surface

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intuit
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intuitionism
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intuitive
intuitive feeling
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intussuscept
intussusception
Inuit
Inuktitut
inula
Inula helenium
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