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Bulging   /bˈəldʒɪŋ/   Listen
verb
Bulge  v. i.  (past & past part. bulged; pres. part. 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.
2.
To bilge, as a ship; to founder. "And scattered navies bulge on distant shores."


adjective
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.
Synonyms: convex.
2.
Curving outward.
Synonyms: bellied, bellying, bulbous, bulgy, protuberant.





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... gaudy coloured scarf that hid my throat. A second later and I felt them smartly transferred to my long, curly hair. They tightened, and my neck was on the very verge of being jerked back, when between my quivering eyelids I saw on the sheeny surface of his bulging eye-balls,—the cat—the damnable, hated cat. The effect was magical. A wave of the most terrific, the most ungovernable fury surged through me. I struck out blindly, and one of my fists alighting on the would-be murderer's face made him stagger back and drop the knife. In an instant the weapon ...
— Byways of Ghost-Land • Elliott O'Donnell
... of them, who had gone off with a bulging note-book, crammed with enough "copy" to fill a column, "says that a number of shocking falsehoods about her have been published in our journals. Yet she insists she is not the woman she is credited (or discredited) with being. If she were, her admirers, ...
— The Magnificent Montez - From Courtesan to Convert • Horace Wyndham
... with enthusiasm. Scrambling amid the rocks, wading or tumbling into the frigid waters of mountain streams, sleeping anywhere or not sleeping, all these hardships were of no consequence whatever compared with the thrill which came with the first glimpse of, high up under the bulging brow of an overhanging cliff, a rude wall and a cluster of half ruined dwellings sticking to the side of the precipice as barn swallows' nests are plastered beneath eaves. Then the climb and the glorious burrowing into the homes of these long dead folk, the hallelujahs ...
— Galusha the Magnificent • Joseph C. Lincoln
... Nevill Tyson turned and looked after him as he was carried through the doorway. She could just see the downy back of his innocent head, and his ridiculous frock bulging roundly over the nurse's arm. But whether she was thinking of him at that ...
— The Tysons - (Mr. and Mrs. Nevill Tyson) • May Sinclair
... guitarist with the assassin's face, came forward to the public, and while the one strummed the guitar, suddenly muting the strings by placing his hands over them, the other, his face flushed, the veins of his neck standing out tensely, and his eyes bulging from their sockets, poured forth a guttural wail that was doubtless of most difficult execution, for it reddened him to the ...
— The Quest • Pio Baroja


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