intumesce : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: intumesce	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
intumesce v 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" Synonym(s): bubble up, intumesce expand abnormally; "The bellies of the starving children are swelling" Synonym(s): swell, swell up, intumesce, tumefy, tumesce
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Intumesce \In`tu*mesce"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Intumesced}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Intumescing}.] [L. intumescere; pref. in- in + tumescere to swell up, incho. fr. tumere to swell. See {Tumid}.] To enlarge or expand with heat; to swell; specifically, to swell up or bubble up under the action of heat, as before the blowpipe. In a higher heat, it intumesces, and melts into a yellowish black mass. --Kirwan.