intumesce
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
- arrow points to the broader concept
- dashed outline: no word in this language
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
move upwards in bubbles, as from the effect of heating; also used metaphorically
Gases bubbled up from the earth
Types & categories
- surface hypernym
Sense 2 verb
expand abnormally
The bellies of the starving children are swelling
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- tumefaction derivation
- puffiness derivation
- intumescence derivation
- intumescent derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | surface |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | tumefaction |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | puffiness |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | intumescence |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | intumescent |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | expand |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | distend |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | belly |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | puff out |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | bloat |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | blister |