intumescence – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
intumescence
n.
swelling; puffiness; bubbling up
intumescence
Noun
1. swelling up with blood or other fluids (as with congestion)
(synonym) intumescency
(hypernym) swelling, puffiness, lump
(hyponym) hematoma, haematoma
(derivation) swell, swell up, intumesce, tumefy, tumesce
2. the swelling of certain substances when they are heated (often accompanied by release of water)
(synonym) intumescency, swelling
(hypernym) chemical process, chemical change, chemical action
Intumescence
(n.)
The act or process of swelling or enlarging; also, the state of being swollen; expansion; tumidity; especially, the swelling up of bodies under the action of heat.
(n.)
Anything swollen or enlarged, as a tumor.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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intumescence
Synonyms and related words:
benign tumor, bloat, bloatedness, bloating, blowing up, boil, bump, bunion, callosity, callus, cancer, carbuncle, carcinoma, corn, cyst, diastole, dilatation, dilation, distension, dropsy, edema, excrescence, flatulence, flatulency, flatus, fungosity, fungus, furuncle, gassiness, growth, inflation, lump, malignant growth, metastatic tumor, meteorism, mole, morbid growth, neoplasm, nevus, nonmalignant tumor, outgrowth, pimple, pock, proud flesh, puff, puffiness, puffing, pustule, rising, sarcoma, sebaceous cyst, stretching, swell, swellage, swelling, swollenness, tumefaction, tumescence, tumidity, tumidness, tumor, turgescence, turgescency, turgidity, turgidness, tympanism, tympany, verruca, wart, wen, windiness
Source: Moby Thesaurus, which is part of the
Moby Project created by Grady Ward. In 1996 Grady Ward placed this thesaurus in the public domain.
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