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Intumesce definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

INTUMESCE, v.i. intumes'. [L. intumesco; in and tumeo, to swell.]
To swell; to enlarge or expand with heat.
In a higher heat it intumesces and melts into a yellowish black mass.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: 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" [syn: bubble up, intumesce]
2: expand abnormally; "The bellies of the starving children are swelling" [syn: swell, swell up, intumesce, tumefy, tumesce]

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v.intr. swell up. Derivatives: intumescence n. intumescent adj. Etymology: L intumescere (as IN-(2), tumescere incept. of tumere swell)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

v. n. Swell, expand, dilate, become tumid.