| humerus | (noun) bone extending from the shoulder to the elbow | - |
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| humic | (adjective) of or relating to or derived from humus | - |
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| humid | (adjective) containing or characterized by a great deal of water vapor | - |
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| humidifier | (noun) an appliance designed to add moisture to the air in a building | - |
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| humidify | (verb) make (more) humid | Synonyms: moisturise, moisturize |
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| humidity | (noun) wetness in the atmosphere | Synonyms: humidness |
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| humidness | (noun) wetness in the atmosphere | Synonyms: humidity |
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| humification | (noun) the process of the formation of humus from plant remains | - |
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| humified | (adjective) converted to humus | - |
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| humify | (verb) convert (plant remains) into humus | - |
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| humiliate | (verb) cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of | Synonyms: abase, chagrin, humble, mortify |
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| humiliated | (adjective) made to feel uncomfortable because of shame or wounded pride | Synonyms: embarrassed, mortified |
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| (adjective) subdued or brought low in condition or status | Synonyms: broken, crushed, humbled, low |
| humiliating | (adjective) causing awareness of your shortcomings | Synonyms: demeaning, humbling, mortifying |
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| humiliatingly | (adverb) in a humiliating manner | Synonyms: demeaningly |
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| humiliation | (noun) depriving one of self-esteem | Synonyms: abasement |
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| (noun) an instance in which you are caused to lose your prestige or self-respect | Synonyms: mortification |
| (noun) strong feelings of embarrassment | Synonyms: chagrin, mortification |
| (noun) state of disgrace or loss of self-respect | - |
| humility | (noun) a disposition to be humble; a lack of false pride | Synonyms: humbleness |
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| (noun) a humble feeling | Synonyms: humbleness |
| humin | (noun) a black humic substance that is not soluble in water | - |
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| hummer | (noun) (baseball) a pitch thrown with maximum velocity | Synonyms: bullet, fastball, heater, smoke |
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| (noun) a singer who produces a tune without opening the lips or forming words | - |
| humming | (noun) the act of singing with closed lips | - |
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| (noun) a humming noise | Synonyms: hum |
| hummingbird | (noun) tiny American bird having brilliant iridescent plumage and long slender bills; wings are specialized for vibrating flight | - |
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| hummock | (noun) a small natural hill | Synonyms: hammock, hillock, knoll, mound |
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| hummus | (noun) a thick spread made from mashed chickpeas, tahini, lemon juice and garlic; used especially as a dip for pita; originated in the Middle East | Synonyms: hommos, hoummos, humous, humus |
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| humongous | (adjective) (used informally) very large | Synonyms: banging, thumping, walloping, whopping |
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| humor | (noun) the quality of being funny | Synonyms: humour |
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| (noun) the trait of appreciating (and being able to express) the humorous | Synonyms: humour, sense of humor, sense of humour |
| (noun) the liquid parts of the body | Synonyms: bodily fluid, body fluid, humour, liquid body substance |
| (noun) (Middle Ages) one of the four fluids in the body whose balance was believed to determine your emotional and physical state | Synonyms: humour |
| (noun) a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter | Synonyms: humour, wit, witticism, wittiness |
| (noun) a characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling | Synonyms: humour, mood, temper |
| (verb) put into a good mood | Synonyms: humour |
| humoral | (adjective) of or relating to bodily fluids | - |
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| humoring | (noun) the act of indulging or gratifying a desire | Synonyms: humouring, indulgence, indulging, pampering |
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| humorist | (noun) someone who acts, speaks or writes in an amusing way | Synonyms: humourist |
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| humorless | (adjective) lacking humor | Synonyms: humourless, unhumorous |
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| humorlessly | (adverb) in a humorless manner | Synonyms: humourlessly |
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| humorous | (adjective) full of or characterized by humor | Synonyms: humourous |
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| humorously | (adverb) in a humorous manner | - |
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| humorousness | (noun) the trait of merry joking | Synonyms: jocoseness, jocosity, merriness |
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| humour | (noun) the quality of being funny | Synonyms: humor |
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| (noun) the trait of appreciating (and being able to express) the humorous | Synonyms: humor, sense of humor, sense of humour |
| (noun) the liquid parts of the body | Synonyms: bodily fluid, body fluid, humor, liquid body substance |
| (noun) (Middle Ages) one of the four fluids in the body whose balance was believed to determine your emotional and physical state | Synonyms: humor |
| (noun) a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter | Synonyms: humor, wit, witticism, wittiness |
| (noun) a characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling | Synonyms: humor, mood, temper |
| (verb) put into a good mood | Synonyms: humor |
| humouring | (noun) the act of indulging or gratifying a desire | Synonyms: humoring, indulgence, indulging, pampering |
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| humourist | (noun) someone who acts, speaks or writes in an amusing way | Synonyms: humorist |
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| humourless | (adjective) lacking humor | Synonyms: humorless, unhumorous |
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| humourlessly | (adverb) in a humorless manner | Synonyms: humorlessly |
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| humourous | (adjective) full of or characterized by humor | Synonyms: humorous |
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| humous | (noun) a thick spread made from mashed chickpeas, tahini, lemon juice and garlic; used especially as a dip for pita; originated in the Middle East | Synonyms: hommos, hoummos, hummus, humus |
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| hump | (noun) something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings | Synonyms: bulge, bump, excrescence, extrusion, gibbosity, gibbousness, jut, prominence, protrusion, protuberance, swelling |
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| (verb) have sexual intercourse with | Synonyms: bang, be intimate, bed, bonk, do it, eff, fuck, get it on, get laid, have a go at it, have intercourse, have it away, have it off, have sex, jazz, know, lie with, love, make love, make out, roll in the hay, screw, sleep together, sleep with |
| (verb) round one's back by bending forward and drawing the shoulders forward | Synonyms: hunch, hunch forward, hunch over |
| humpback | (noun) large whalebone whale with long flippers noted for arching or humping its back as it dives | Synonyms: humpback whale, Megaptera novaeangliae |
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| (noun) a person whose back is hunched because of abnormal curvature of the upper spine | Synonyms: crookback, hunchback |
| (noun) an abnormal backward curve to the vertebral column | Synonyms: hunchback, kyphosis |
| humpbacked | (adjective) characteristic of or suffering from kyphosis, an abnormality of the vertebral column | Synonyms: crookback, crookbacked, gibbous, humped, hunchbacked, kyphotic |
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| humped | (adjective) characteristic of or suffering from kyphosis, an abnormality of the vertebral column | Synonyms: crookback, crookbacked, gibbous, humpbacked, hunchbacked, kyphotic |
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| humus | (noun) a thick spread made from mashed chickpeas, tahini, lemon juice and garlic; used especially as a dip for pita; originated in the Middle East | Synonyms: hommos, hoummos, hummus, humous |
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| (noun) partially decomposed organic matter; the organic component of soil | - |
| hydrargyrum | (noun) a heavy silvery toxic univalent and bivalent metallic element; the only metal that is liquid at ordinary temperatures | Synonyms: atomic number 80, Hg, mercury, quicksilver |
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| hydroflumethiazide | (noun) diuretic used to treat hypertension and edema | - |
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| hymenium | (noun) spore-bearing layer of cells in certain fungi containing asci or basidia | - |
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| hypanthium | (noun) the cuplike or ringlike or tubular structure of a flower which bears the sepals and stamens and calyx (as in Rosaceae) | Synonyms: calyx tube, floral cup |
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| hypobasidium | (noun) special cell constituting the base of the basidium in various fungi especially of the order Tremellales | - |
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| hypochondrium | (noun) the upper region of the abdomen just below the lowest ribs on either side of the epigastrium | - |
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| ichneumon | (noun) northern African mongoose; in ancient times thought to devour crocodile eggs | Synonyms: Herpestes ichneumon |
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| ileum | (noun) the part of the small intestine between the jejunum and the cecum | - |
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| ilium | (noun) the upper and widest of the three bones making up the hipbone | - |
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| illume | (verb) introduce light into | Synonyms: illuminate, illumine, light, light up |
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| illuminance | (noun) the luminous flux incident on a unit area | Synonyms: illumination |
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| illuminant | (noun) something that can serve as a source of light | - |
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| illuminate | (verb) introduce light into | Synonyms: illume, illumine, light, light up |
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| (verb) make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear | Synonyms: clear, clear up, crystalise, crystalize, crystallise, crystallize, elucidate, enlighten, shed light on, sort out, straighten out |
| (verb) add embellishments and paintings to (medieval manuscripts) | - |
| illuminated | (adjective) provided with artificial light | Synonyms: lighted, lit, well-lighted |
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| illuminating | (adjective) tending to increase knowledge or dissipate ignorance | Synonyms: enlightening, informative |
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| illumination | (noun) painting or drawing included in a book (especially in illuminated medieval manuscripts) | Synonyms: miniature |
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| (noun) the luminous flux incident on a unit area | Synonyms: illuminance |
| (noun) an interpretation that removes obstacles to understanding | Synonyms: clarification, elucidation |
| (noun) the degree of visibility of your environment | - |
| (noun) a condition of spiritual awareness; divine illumination | Synonyms: light |
| illumine | (verb) introduce light into | Synonyms: illume, illuminate, light, light up |
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| imaum | (noun) (Islam) the man who leads prayers in a mosque; for Shiites an imam is a recognized authority on Islamic theology and law and a spiritual guide | Synonyms: imam |
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| imperium | (noun) supreme authority; absolute dominion | - |
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| (noun) the domain ruled by an emperor or empress; the region over which imperial dominion is exercised | Synonyms: empire |
| incumbency | (noun) the office of an incumbent | - |
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| (noun) a duty that is incumbent upon you | - |
| (noun) the term during which some position is held | Synonyms: tenure, term of office |
| incumbent | (adjective) currently holding an office | - |
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| (adjective) necessary (for someone) as a duty or responsibility; morally binding | - |
| (adjective) lying or leaning on something else | - |
| (noun) the official who holds an office | Synonyms: officeholder |
| incumbrance | (noun) any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome | Synonyms: encumbrance, hinderance, hindrance, hitch, interference, preventative, preventive |
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| (noun) an onerous or difficult concern | Synonyms: burden, encumbrance, load, onus |
| (noun) a charge against property (as a lien or mortgage) | Synonyms: encumbrance |
| indecorum | (noun) an act of undue intimacy | Synonyms: familiarity, impropriety, liberty |
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| (noun) a lack of decorum | Synonyms: indecorousness |
| indium | (noun) a rare soft silvery metallic element; occurs in small quantities in sphalerite | Synonyms: atomic number 49, In |
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| indument | (noun) a covering of fine hairs (or sometimes scales) as on a leaf or insect | Synonyms: indumentum |
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| indumentum | (noun) a covering of fine hairs (or sometimes scales) as on a leaf or insect | Synonyms: indument |
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| indusium | (noun) a membrane enclosing and protecting the developing spores especially that covering the sori of a fern | - |
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| infrahuman | (adjective) belonging to a group below humans in evolutionary development | - |
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| infundibulum | (noun) any of various funnel-shaped parts of the body (but especially the hypophyseal stalk) | - |
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| inhuman | (adjective) without compunction or human feeling | Synonyms: cold-blooded, cold, insensate |
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| (adjective) belonging to or resembling something nonhuman | - |
| inhumane | (adjective) lacking and reflecting lack of pity or compassion | - |
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| inhumanely | (adverb) in an inhumane manner | - |
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| inhumaneness | (noun) the quality of lacking compassion or consideration for others | Synonyms: inhumanity |
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| inhumanity | (noun) an act of atrocious cruelty | Synonyms: atrocity |
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| (noun) the quality of lacking compassion or consideration for others | Synonyms: inhumaneness |
| inhumation | (noun) the ritual placing of a corpse in a grave | Synonyms: burial, entombment, interment, sepulture |
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| inhume | (verb) place in a grave or tomb | Synonyms: bury, entomb, inter, lay to rest |
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| inhumed | (adjective) placed in a grave | Synonyms: buried, interred |
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| innumerable | (adjective) too numerous to be counted | Synonyms: countless, infinite, innumerous, multitudinous, myriad, numberless, uncounted, unnumberable, unnumbered, unnumerable |
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| innumerableness | (noun) a number beyond counting | Synonyms: countlessness |
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| innumerate | (adjective) lacking knowledge and understanding of mathematical concepts and methods | - |
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| innumerous | (adjective) too numerous to be counted | Synonyms: countless, infinite, innumerable, multitudinous, myriad, numberless, uncounted, unnumberable, unnumbered, unnumerable |
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| inoculum | (noun) a substance (a virus or toxin or immune serum) that is introduced into the body to produce or increase immunity to a particular disease | Synonyms: inoculant |
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| instrument | (noun) the means whereby some act is accomplished | Synonyms: tool |
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| (noun) a device that requires skill for proper use | - |
| (noun) any of various devices or contrivances that can be used to produce musical tones or sounds | Synonyms: musical instrument |
| (noun) (law) a document that states some contractual relationship or grants some right | Synonyms: legal document, legal instrument, official document |
| (noun) the semantic role of the entity (usually inanimate) that the agent uses to perform an action or start a process | Synonyms: instrumental role |
| (noun) a person used by another to gain an end | Synonyms: cat's-paw, pawn |
| (verb) address a legal document to | - |
| (verb) write an instrumental score for | Synonyms: instrumentate |
| (verb) equip with instruments for measuring, recording, or controlling | - |
| instrumental | (adjective) relating to or designed for or performed on musical instruments | - |
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| (adjective) serving or acting as a means or aid | Synonyms: implemental, subservient |
| instrumentalism | (noun) a system of pragmatic philosophy that considers idea to be instruments that should guide our actions and their value is measured by their success | - |
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| instrumentalist | (noun) someone who plays a music as a profession | Synonyms: musician, player |
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| instrumentality | (noun) an artifact (that is instrumental in accomplishing some end) for accomplishing some end | Synonyms: instrumentation, means |
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| (noun) the quality of being instrumental for some purpose | - |
| (noun) a subsidiary organ of government created for a special purpose | - |
| instrumentate | (verb) write an instrumental score for | Synonyms: instrument |
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| instrumentation | (noun) the act of providing or using the instruments needed for some implementation | - |
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| (noun) the act of arranging a piece of music for an orchestra and assigning parts to the different musical instruments | Synonyms: orchestration |
| (noun) an artifact (that is instrumental in accomplishing some end) for accomplishing some end | Synonyms: instrumentality, means |
| (noun) the instruments called for in a musical score or arrangement for a band or orchestra | - |
| integument | (noun) an outer protective covering such as the skin of an animal or a cuticle or seed coat or rind or shell | - |
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| integumental | (adjective) of or relating to the integument | Synonyms: integumentary |
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| integumentary | (adjective) of or relating to the integument | Synonyms: integumental |
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| interregnum | (noun) the time between two reigns, governments, etc. | - |
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| intumesce | (verb) expand abnormally | Synonyms: swell, swell up, tumefy, tumesce |
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| (verb) move upwards in bubbles, as from the effect of heating; also used metaphorically | Synonyms: bubble up |
| intumescence | (noun) the increase in volume of certain substances when they are heated (often accompanied by release of water) | Synonyms: intumescency, swelling |
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| (noun) swelling up with blood or other fluids (as with congestion) | Synonyms: intumescency |
| intumescency | (noun) the increase in volume of certain substances when they are heated (often accompanied by release of water) | Synonyms: intumescence, swelling |
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| (noun) swelling up with blood or other fluids (as with congestion) | Synonyms: intumescence |