protuberate

Other forms: protuberating; protuberates; protuberated

Definitions of protuberate
  1. verb
    cause to bulge out or project
  2. verb
    form a rounded prominence
    “The starved child's belly protuberated”
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    type of:
    bag, bulge
    bulge out; form a bulge outward, or be so full as to appear to bulge
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