Definitions for intumesce
Overview of verb intumesce
The verb intumesce has 2 senses? (no senses from tagged texts)
1. bubble up, 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")
2. swell, swell up, intumesce, tumefy, tumesce
(expand abnormally; "The bellies of the starving children are swelling")
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