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Synonyms of bulge in English:

bulge


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noun

1‘the money made a fat bulge in his hip pocket’

SYNONYMS
swelling, bump, lump, protuberance, protrusion, prominence, projection, eruption, convexity
rare intumescence

2‘there will be a bulge in the prison population’

SYNONYMS
surge, upsurge, rise, increase, escalation, jump, leap, boost, intensification, augmentation
ANTONYMS

decrease


verb

1‘his eyes were bulging’

SYNONYMS
swell, swell out, puff out, puff up, stick out, balloon, balloon out, balloon up, fill out, bag, belly
project, protrude, jut, jut out, stand out, be prominent
expand, inflate, distend, dilate, enlarge, bloat
rare intumesce, tumefy
ANTONYMS

contract