Dictionary Entry
protuberate
protuberate is a 11-letter English word with 3 senses as intransitive verb and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To swell, or be prominent, beyond the adjacent surface; to bulge out. Face value is 15 in Scrabble and 18 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
11 letters · Scrabble 15 · Words With Friends 18 · 3 senses
Definitions
- 1intransitive verb
To swell, or be prominent, beyond the adjacent surface; to bulge out.
- 2verb
form a rounded prominence
"The starved child's belly protuberated"
- 3verb
cause to bulge out or project
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