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Bulged

Bulge \Bulge\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Bulged; p. pr. & vb. n. 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.
    --Broome.

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bulged

vb. (en-past of: bulge)

Usage examples of "bulged".

The flashlight your mother name-tagged with masking tape and packed for you special pans around the institutional room: the drop-ceiling, the gray striped mattress and bulged grid of bunksprings above you, the two other bunkbeds another matte gray that won't return light, the piles of books and compact disks and tapes and tennis gear.

He was around where the tree-line bulged herniatically out toward the end of the West Courts' fencing.

Please ease carefully into your supporter and adjust the elastic straps so the straps do not bite into your butt and make bulged ridges in your butt that everyone can see once you've sweated through your shorts.

Whenever he looked at it, the ceiling bulged and then deflated, shiny as a lung.

The polyurethane bulged and settled in the North Shore wind and seemed like some monstrous vacuole inhaling and exhaling directly over little Gately, lying there, wide-eyed.

The worst thing about Dilaudid for Gately was that the hydromorphone's transit across the blood-brain barrier created a terrible five-second mnemonic hallucination where he was a gargantuan toddler in an XXL Fisher-Price crib in a sandy field under a storm-cloudy sky that bulged and receded like a big gray lung.

He caught a glimpse of bulged ceiling and then the floor caught him in the temple.

The bone-white shingles bulged out over each of those dark windows like brows over eyes.

In the hall, the volume on Koontz's small Sony was turned down and Henry Bowers could sense him, head cocked to one side, one hand on the TV's volume knob, the fingers of the other hand touching the cylinder which bulged in the righthand pocket of his whites - the roll of quarters.

Neither was the railroad trestle going over to the trainyards at the end of Neibolt Street or the Old Cape housing development - low bluffs and red sandstone outcroppings of rock bulged out of thick stands of giant fern and pine trees where the Old Cape should have been.

The balloon bulged over and under his fist and Eddie winced, trying to get ready for the pop.

One of the pockets of her blue shorts bulged with the small ball-bearings that were her practice ammo.

The third was Freese's Department Store - only it had an oddly bulged-out, foreshortened look.

The muscles in his f bulged firmly as orearmand shifted with the restrained desire to hit someone, but stilled under my breath, then another, as he looked down at me.

The eyes bulged as the body collapsed, hot blood pumping, congealing on the frigid deck.