intumesce

verb

  1. 1

    expand abnormally

    The bellies of the starving children are swelling

  2. 2

    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

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