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Wordnet 3.0

VERB (1)

1. expand abnormally;
- Example: "The bellies of the starving children are swelling"
[syn: swell, swell up, intumesce, tumefy, tumesce]



WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

tumesce
    v 1: expand abnormally; "The bellies of the starving children
         are swelling" [syn: swell, swell up, intumesce,
         tumefy, tumesce]