bulge
/ˈbʌldʒ/ verb C2- To stick out from a surface without breaking it. · He stood six feet tall, with muscular arms bulging out of his black T-shirt.
- (of a container, etc.) To have the surface stretched by something pushing out; to swell; to belly. · The submarine bulged because of the enormous air pressure inside.
- To bilge, as a ship; to founder.
He/she/it bulges · Past bulged · Past participle bulged · -ing form bulging
Verb forms
- Base form
- bulge
- He/she/it
- bulges
- Past
- bulged
- Past participle
- bulged
- -ing form
- bulging
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His head was quite bulged out at the top with brains.
The Scarecrow was thinking again, and his head bulged out so horribly that Dorothy feared it would burst.
Now a snake, especially a wary old python like Kaa, very seldom shows that he is angry, but Baloo and Bagheera could see the big swallowing muscles on either side of Kaa’s throat ripple and bulge.
Nag coiled himself down, coil by coil, round the bulge at the bottom of the water jar, and Rikki-tikki stayed still as death.
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