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n. A protruding part; an outward curve or swelling.

n. Nautical A bilge.

n. A sudden, usually temporary increase in number or quantity: The baby boom created a bulge in school enrollment.

n. An advantage.

v. To cause to curve outward.

verb-intransitive. To curve outward.

verb-intransitive. To swell up.

verb-intransitive. To stick out; protrude.

verb-intransitive. To be filled or overfilled: pockets bulging with coins.

n. Something sticking out from a surface.

v. To stick out from (a surface).

v. To bilge, as a ship; to founder.

n. The bilge or protuberant part of a cask.

n. A swelling, protuberant part; a bending outward, esp. when caused by pressure.

n. The bilge of a vessel. See Bilge, 2.

verb-intransitive. To swell or jut out; to bend outward, as a wall when it yields to pressure; to be protuberant.

verb-intransitive. To bilge, as a ship; to founder.

n. A rounded protuberance; a swelling; a swell; a hump.

n. The swirl made by a salmon rising to the surface.

To swell out; be protuberant.

To bilge, as a ship.

n. A rapid rise in price, of stock, grain, cotton, or the like, followed by an equally rapid fall, owing to some temporary causes. The name has reference to the curve in a diagram of prices.

To cause to swell out and become protuberant.

To bilge or stave in the bottom of, as a ship.

n. something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings

v. bulge outward

v. bulge out; form a bulge outward, or be so full as to appear to bulge

v. swell or protrude outwards

v. cause to bulge or swell outwards

"To generate the resultant pattern, a 3-dimensional bulge is formed around the tree, and its distorted wire-grid projected onto a 2-dimensional surface."

bulged    bulges    bulging   

change shape    deform    change form    swell   

to get the bulge on one    bulged cask    bulge bracket    bulge out   

bilge   

founder    protuberate    bag    protuberance   

divulge    indulge   

lurch    twitch    bump    buttock    curvature    hump    lump    fissure    bruise    ache