to bulge
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2.9
- verb
- /bʌldʒ/
:
abultarse
- The old tire began to bulge dangerously, indicating that it needed to be replaced.
Your muscles just don't bulge up like that.
- Your muscles just don't bulge up like that.
- What if the earth bulges from spinning?
- In the course of time, this has made the equator bulge outwards.
- So like Bran said, the beach ball analogy, if you take a beach ball and you press it this way, it bulges this way, right?
- Or or Total Recall, where Arnold Schwarzenegger doesn't have his helmet on and his eyes begin to bulge out of his head like one of those little squeeze toys.
Examples
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The old woman's eyes bulged with terror, and two legs dropped down the chimney as well.
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His eyes start to bulge out any time anyone so much as mentions the word.
Fiction book (1993) -
And seven years later it starts to bulge even more.
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Your eyes just bulge out.
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When his eyes start to bulge out, I let him go.
Fiction book (1997) -
I made my eyes bulge wide and said, "My God, what happened here?"
Fiction book (1996) -
My eyes, they're starting to bulge.
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His eye narrowed, and the patch seemed to bulge with that dead eye trying to see right through it.
Fiction book (1994) -
The machine tilts slightly as the ground bulges up beneath it.
Fiction book (1990) -
Diric paused beside a piece of corridor that seemed to bulge outward just a bit.
Fiction book (1992)
Synonyms
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3.2
To become larger often by pressure or by soaking in water
31
5.8
To stick out from a surface or edge
28
3.9
Become larger and rounder because of liquid, injury, or illness
21
4.7
To increase quickly in size or amount
21
3.1
To come out quickly from a surface or container
20
4.1
To swell or make part of the body larger
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4.9
To become swollen because of gas or fluid
12
8.2
To swell because of pressure inside, for example a stomach or a balloon
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3.5
To make something larger by filling with air or pride
3
3.7
To stick out in a round shape, like a pocket or balloon
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4.4
To make something larger or more full, for example by filling it with air
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5.4
To stick out or swell in a visible way
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9.2
To become much larger, often by filling with air
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6.7
To form a rounded bulge or to hold something in a small bag on the body, often for animals
To stick out from a surface like a bump
It curves outward in the middle to form a rounded bulge
To stick out in a round shape, like a jacket or sail in the wind
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Phrasal Verbs
Compounds
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6.3
A major World War II battle in winter 1944–45 in the Ardennes where Germany surprised Allied forces
A major World War II battle in December 1944 when German troops launched a surprise attack in the Ardennes
How Much
Surface Forms
Etymology
Bulge comes from the same old word bulga for 'bag', so to bulge is to swell or stick out like a bag being filled and pushing outward.