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Hasil cari dari kata atau frase: intumesce (0.01927 detik)
Found 2 items, similar to intumesce.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: intumesce
intumesce
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]
2: expand abnormally;
“The bellies of the starving children are
swelling” [syn:
swell,
swell up,
tumefy,
tumesce]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Intumesce
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.
[1913 Webster]
In a higher heat, it intumesces, and melts into a
yellowish black mass. --Kirwan.
[1913 Webster]
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