eng: intumesce

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Meaning
means(verb) 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"
intumesce, bubble up
means(verb) expand abnormally; "The bellies of the starving children are swelling"
tumefy, tumesce, intumesce, swell, swell up

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