| 单词 | bulge |
| 释义 | bulge (once / 1269 pages) vn 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 FAMILYbulge: bulged, bulges, bulging, bulgy+/bulging: bulgingly/bulgy: bulginess USAGE EXAMPLESOur 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 protuberanceprominence on the outer surface of the occipital bone bellya part that bulges deeply caputa headlike protuberance on an organ or structure mogula bump on a ski slope nub, nubblea small lump or protuberance snaga sharp protuberance wartany small rounded protuberance (as on certain plants or animals) projection any solid convex shape that juts out from something |
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