to pouch
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6.7
- verb
- /paʊtʃ/
:
abultarse
- "He took off the glasses, and I saw that his eyes were indeed reddened and pouched, with bluish shadows in the thin, scored skin underneath.
- pouched cheeks
Examples
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The counselor was watching them both closely, though she made no apparent effort at it, sitting snug behind her desk, her elbows, pouched with skin, resting on the mahogany desktop as if for a comfortable conversation with friends.
Fiction book (1993) -
This holds true, for example, for the five-inch-long pouched dormouse and the vulpine opossum.
Fiction book (1995) -
I imagined his white face and bald head in the darkness of his study, the face that all my life had been pouched with dispassion.
Fiction book (1998) -
His eyes, pouched in wrinkled lids like a turtle's, were often vague and restless.
Fiction book (1997) -
He slipped the immense fiery red jawbreaker to one side of his mouth until his cheek pouched like a chipmunk's.
Fiction book (1993) -
She grew in other ways as well: she didn't resist when her already square figure began to expand, puffing at the wrists and ankles, pouching a bit on either side of her jaw.
Fiction book (1996) -
Sometimes she crawls into it and lies on her back, imagining her stomach pouching out, her breasts swelling and swelling until she fills the brace like her own rib cage.
Fiction book (2002) -
She carefully watched her posture while exercising to avoid letting her stomach pouch out as she lifted weights.
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As the baby squirrel fed, its cheeks began to pouch with acorns.
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The dog would pouch its cheeks when it found a hidden treat buried in the garden.
Synonyms
31
5.8
To stick out from a surface or edge
7
2.9
To swell so that part of something sticks out
3
6.0
To hang loosely and stick out in a soft fold
To fold inward to make a pouch inside body tissue or an organ
Compounds
- Specialized
7
7.1
A bag diplomats use to carry official papers that customs cannot open under international law
- Specialized
A pocket inside the mouth of some animals used to store food temporarily
How Swollen
Surface Forms
Etymology
Pouch as a verb for swelling comes from the idea of a small bag or pocket, from old French poche 'bag', so to pouch is to bulge out into a pocket-like shape.