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Meaning of bulge

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  bulge
      n 1: something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects
           from its surroundings; "the gun in his pocket made an
           obvious bulge"; "the hump of a camel"; "he stood on the
           rocky prominence"; "the occipital protuberance was well
           developed"; "the bony excrescence between its horns" [syn:
           {bulge}, {bump}, {hump}, {swelling}, {gibbosity},
           {gibbousness}, {jut}, {prominence}, {protuberance},
           {protrusion}, {extrusion}, {excrescence}]
      v 1: swell or protrude outwards; "His stomach bulged after the
           huge meal" [syn: {bulge}, {pouch}, {protrude}]
      2: bulge out; form a bulge outward, or be so full as to appear
         to bulge [syn: {bulge}, {bag}]
      3: bulge outward; "His eyes popped" [syn: {start}, {protrude},
         {pop}, {pop out}, {bulge}, {bulge out}, {bug out}, {come
         out}]
      4: cause to bulge or swell outwards [syn: {bulge}, {bulk}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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