intumesce

intumesce is a 9-letter English word with 3 senses as intransitive verb and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To enlarge or expand with heat; to swell; specifically, to swell up or bubble up under the action of heat, as before the blowpipe. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

9 letters · Scrabble 13 · Words With Friends 17 · 3 senses

Definitions

1. intransitive verb. To enlarge or expand with heat; to swell; specifically, to swell up or bubble up under the action of heat, as before the blowpipe.
2. verb. expand abnormally

   "The bellies of the starving children are swelling"

   Synonyms: swell, tumefy, tumesce

3. 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"

Synonyms

swell, tumefy, tumesce

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in intumesce:

ecumenist

Common word forms

intumesced, intumesces, intumescing

Words from these letters

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