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for Bulging
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
bulging \bulging\ adj.
1. curving or bulging outward. Opposite of concave.
[Narrower terms: biconvex, convexo-convex, lenticular,
lentiform; broken-backed, hogged; convexo-concave;
gibbous, gibbose; planoconvex] Also See: protrusive.
Syn: convex.
[WordNet 1.5]
2. curving outward.
Syn: bellied, bellying, bulbous, bulgy, protuberant.
[WordNet 1.5]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
Bulge \Bulge\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Bulged; p. pr. & vb. n.
Bulging.]
1. To swell or jut out; to bend outward, as a wall when it
yields to pressure; to be protuberant; as, the wall
bulges.
[1913 Webster]
2. To bilge, as a ship; to founder.
[1913 Webster]
And scattered navies bulge on distant shores.
--Broome.
[1913 Webster]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) :
bulging
adj 1: curving or bulging outward [syn: convex, bulging]
[ant: concave]
2: curving outward [syn: bellied, bellying, bulbous,
bulging, bulgy, protuberant]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :
63 Moby Thesaurus words for "bulging":
SRO, bagging, baggy, ballooning, bellied, bellying, bellylike,
billowing, billowy, bloated, bosomy, brimful, brimming, bulbose,
bulbous, bumped, bumpy, bunched, bunchy, bursting, capacity,
chock-full, chuck-full, congested, convex, cram-full, crammed,
distended, farci, filled, flush, full, full to bursting, hillocky,
hummocky, jam-packed, moutonnee, overfull, overstuffed, packed,
packed like sardines, plenary, pneumatic, potbellied, pouching,
ready to burst, replete, rotund, round, rounded, rounded out,
satiated, saturated, soaked, standing room only, stuffed,
surfeited, swelling, swollen, topful, verrucated, verrucose,
warty
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