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Intumesce

In`tu`mesce´
v. i.1.To enlarge or expand with heat; to swell; specifically, to swell up or bubble up under the action of heat, as before the blowpipe.
[imp. & p. p. Intumesced ; p. pr. & vb. n. Intumescing .]
Verb1.intumesce - move upwards in bubbles, as from the effect of heating; also used metaphorically; "Gases bubbled up from the earth"; "Marx's ideas have bubbled up in many places in Latin America"
Synonyms: bubble up
2.intumesce - expand abnormally; "The bellies of the starving children are swelling"
bubble up, come up, rise, rise up, surface

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