Crossword clues for bulging
The Collaborative International Dictionary
bulging \bulging\ adj.
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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.
Syn: convex.
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curving outward.
Syn: bellied, bellying, bulbous, bulgy, protuberant.
Wiktionary
n. The act of something that bulges. vb. (present participle of bulge English)
WordNet
Usage examples of "bulging".
Just as we were starting on again the voortrekker, whom I had set to watch at a little distance, ran up with his eyes bulging out of his head, and reported that he had seen a Basuto with an assegai hanging about in the bush, as though to keep touch with us, after which we delayed no more.
Anji spotted several televisions flickering amidst the mess, each one an old valve job with a Bakelite casing and bulging screen.
Mexican banderilleros with huge slouched hats and pistols bulging from their belts.
His uniform shirt was tight without the armor, and through the thin material she saw bulging biceps, powerful pectorals, and a host of manly muscles.
His evening clothes tightly hugged every masculine muscle from his bulging biceps to the powerful quadriceps in his thighs.
The second was a small, fat, blobby, bulging boy who was chewing something.
The wide, blubbery lips, the speading nose with its clear-red tip, the bulging eyes.
The small book-crammed sitting room of the Mifflins, the sparkling fire, the lively chirrup of the bookseller reading aloud--and there, in the old easy chair whose horsehair stuffing was bulging out, that blue-eyed vision of careless girlhood!
A dog, its ribs bulging, trotted across the street in front of Bowie toward the depot.
The tent creaked: then the cloaker eased past her carrying a sack bulging with clinking hardware.
At first it looked like a replay of the entrance of the first Dreadnought, the great nose bulging out through, the curtain of streaming cloud, dragging gas like long flags of war.
An image of Fent straining at his bindings in the barn, his eyes bulging with outrage, rose irresistibly to the surface of her mind.
She was poured into a dress that, while pretty, was several sizes too small, so that the extra flab was bulging in the wrong spots and seemed ready to free itself and make everyone sick.
Gerd, Bodo and one of the TENO men had each grabbed a patient out of bed and, sharing the weight of their limp bodies, the six TENOs and Gerd inched their way from one handhold to the next along the hot bulging wall.
Noel Gouf, and I was an infant prodigy once, and I have a big bulging brain.