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Protuberation   Listen
noun
Protuberation  n.  The act of swelling beyond the surrounding surface.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Protuberation" Quotes from Famous Books



... blackened lantern in his poor old fist—dead as dead—face down in the coral sand. We rolled him over to do what we could for him, but he had passed to a place beyond help or hurt. I went back for Tom in a protuberation, saying, "My God! Tom, what do you think's happened?—Old Dibs's dead in the graveyard!" I guess the old man had never been so close to Tom as he had been to me, boarding in my house and almost a father to me and the wife, for Tom took it awful ...
— Wild Justice: Stories of the South Seas • Lloyd Osbourne



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