4 definitions found From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: bulging \bulging\ adj. 1. curving or bulging outward. Opposite of {concave}. [Narrower terms: {biconvex, convexo-convex, lenticular, lentiform}; {broken-backed, hogged}; {convexo-concave}; {gibbous, gibbose}; {planoconvex}] Also See: {protrusive}. Syn: convex. [WordNet 1.5] 2. curving outward. Syn: bellied, bellying, bulbous, bulgy, protuberant. [WordNet 1.5] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Bulge \Bulge\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Bulged}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Bulging}.] 1. To swell or jut out; to bend outward, as a wall when it yields to pressure; to be protuberant; as, the wall bulges. [1913 Webster] 2. To bilge, as a ship; to founder. [1913 Webster] And scattered navies bulge on distant shores. --Broome. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: bulging adj 1: curving or bulging outward [syn: {convex}] [ant: {concave}] 2: curving outward [syn: {bellied}, {bellying}, {bulbous}, {bulgy}, {protuberant}] From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]: 63 Moby Thesaurus words for "bulging": SRO, bagging, baggy, ballooning, bellied, bellying, bellylike, billowing, billowy, bloated, bosomy, brimful, brimming, bulbose, bulbous, bumped, bumpy, bunched, bunchy, bursting, capacity, chock-full, chuck-full, congested, convex, cram-full, crammed, distended, farci, filled, flush, full, full to bursting, hillocky, hummocky, jam-packed, moutonnee, overfull, overstuffed, packed, packed like sardines, plenary, pneumatic, potbellied, pouching, ready to burst, replete, rotund, round, rounded, rounded out, satiated, saturated, soaked, standing room only, stuffed, surfeited, swelling, swollen, topful, verrucated, verrucose, warty
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