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intumesce
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verb
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“The bellies of the starving children are swelling”
verb
Move upwards in bubbles, as from the effect of heating; also used metaphorically
“Gases bubbled up from the earth”
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The bellies of the starving children are swelling
Gases bubbled up from the earth
Marx's ideas have bubbled up in many places in Latin America
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