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单词 bulge
释义
bulge
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To bulge is to stick out, making a bump called a bulge. A leak in the roof might make your ceiling bulge, and a giant feast could make a bulge over your waistband.
The word bulge comes from the Old French word bouge for "wallet.” A full wallet makes a bulge in a guy’s back pocket. Bodybuilders' muscles bulge out of their bodies. A pimple is a tiny bulge on your skin. For the record, Battle of the Bulge isn’t a diet plan. It was a battle in World War II. Americans called it the Battle of the Bulge because of the way the Allied front line bulged inward.
WORD FAMILY
bulge: bulged, bulges, bulging, bulgy+/bulging: bulgingly/bulgy: bulginess
USAGE EXAMPLES
Our artificial tree bulged outward from one corner of the living room, its not-quite-forest-green branches weighted ridiculously with lights and tinsel and garland and ornaments.
The New Yorker(Dec 22, 2016)
Robert Curtis, during the Battle of the Bulge in December 1944.
Seattle Times(Dec 22, 2016)
The most imposing drawings are two large ones that bulge outward, mimicking the silo’s rounded shape.
Washington Post(Dec 15, 2016)
1v swell or protrude outwards
His stomach bulged after the huge meal
Syn|Hypo|Hyper
pouch, protrude
bulk
stick out or up
change form, change shape, deform
assume a different shape or form
2v bulge out; form a bulge outward, or be so full as to appear to bulge
Syn|Hypo|Hyper
bag
protuberate
form a rounded prominence
jut, jut out, project, protrude, stick out
extend out or project in space
3v bulge outward
Syn|Hyper
bug out, bulge out, come out, pop, pop out, protrude, start
change form, change shape, deform
assume a different shape or form
4v cause to bulge or swell outwards
Syn|Hyper
bulk
swell
cause to become swollen
5n something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings
the gun in his pocket made an obvious bulge
Syn|Hypo|Hyper
bump, excrescence, extrusion, gibbosity, gibbousness, hump, jut, prominence, protrusion, protuberance, swelling
frontal eminence
either prominence of the frontal bone above each orbit
occipital protuberance
prominence on the outer surface of the occipital bone
belly
a part that bulges deeply
caput
a headlike protuberance on an organ or structure
mogul
a bump on a ski slope
nub, nubble
a small lump or protuberance
snag
a sharp protuberance
wart
any small rounded protuberance (as on certain plants or animals)
projection
any solid convex shape that juts out from something
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