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bulge
bulge is a 5-letter English word with 10 senses as noun, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The bilge or protuberant part of a cask. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 12 · 10 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
The bilge or protuberant part of a cask.
- 2noun
A swelling, protuberant part; a bending outward, esp. when caused by pressure; as, a bulge in a wall.
- 3noun
The bilge of a vessel. See Bilge, 2.
- 4intransitive verb
To swell or jut out; to bend outward, as a wall when it yields to pressure; to be protuberant; as, the wall bulges.
- 5intransitive verb
To bilge, as a ship; to founder.
- 6noun
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"
- 7verb
cause to bulge or swell outwards
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- 8verb
swell or protrude outwards
"His stomach bulged after the huge meal"
- 9verb
bulge outward
"His eyes popped"
- 10verb
bulge out; form a bulge outward, or be so full as to appear to bulge
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