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Definitions: Intumesce |
IntumesceVerb1. Move upwards in bubbles, as from the effect of heating; also used metaphorically; "Gases bubbled up from the earth"; "Marx's ideas have bubbled up in many places in Latin America". 2. Expand abnormally; "The bellies of the starving children are swelling". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Note: Intumesce \In`tu*mesce"\, intransitive verb. [imperative past participle Intumesced; present participle verb or noun Intumescing.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonyms: IntumesceSynonyms: bubble up (v), swell (v), swell up (v), tumefy (v). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Intumesce |
| English words defined with "intumesce": Intumesced, Intumescing ♦ Zeolite. (references) |
| Language | Translations for "intumesce"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | at svulme op (to intumesce). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | blähen (belly, billow, cause flatulence, dilate, distend, fill, puff out, swell, swelling), aufblähen (billow out, blow out, distend, distention, inflate, swell, to inflate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | Gonfiarsi (bloat, bulge, gather, heave, inflate, swell), espandersi (boom, expand, sprawl, spread), dilatarsi (dilate, expand, swell). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | intumesceay intumescer (bag, swell, tumefy), intuitivismo (intuitive). (various references) intumescer (to intumesce). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "intumesce": intumescence, intumescences, intumescent. (additional references) | |
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"Intumesce" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: insuesco. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: ecumenist. | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-e-i-m-n-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: centimes, tenesmic. | |
-2 letters: cements, centime, centums, cutesie, emetics, emetins, entices, minuets, minutes, mistune, mutines. | |
-3 letters: cement, centum, cesium, cumins, cuties, cutins, emetic, emetin, entice, icemen, incest, incuse, insect, minces, minuet, minute, miscue, miscut, mucins, mustee, mutine, neumes, neumic, nicest, nieces, tenues, tenuis, tunics, unites, unmeet, unties. | |
-4 letters: cense, cents, centu, cesti, cetes, cines, cites. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-e-i-m-n-s-t-u" | |
+1 letter: ecumenists. | |
+2 letters: contumelies, ecumenicist, inducements, intumescent, luminescent, multiscreen, technetiums. | |
+3 letters: acquirements, cementitious, countermines, ecumenicists, hermeneutics, intumescence, neurochemist, recruitments. | |
+4 letters: cinematheques, circumcenters, communicatees, counterimages, documentaries, ecumenicities, eudaemonistic, intumescences, medicamentous, multivalences, neurochemists, unreminiscent. | |
+5 letters: bioluminescent, cumulativeness, decamethoniums, discouragement, excommunicates, immunogenetics, incommensurate, meticulousness, mutagenicities, neurochemistry, pneumaticities, submetacentric, superincumbent, undomesticated. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)49 6E 74 75 6D 65 73 63 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).. -. - ..- -- . ... -.-. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001001 01101110 01110100 01110101 01101101 01100101 01110011 01100011 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)I n t u m e s c e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0049 006E 0074 0075 006D 0065 0073 0063 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)438086877971856971 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Danish | ordbog, deskriptordefinition, oversættelse | dänisch, danese, dinamarquês, danés |
German | wörterbuch, Übersetzung | tysker, deutsch, Deutsche, tedesco, alemão, alemán |
Italian | dizionario, definizione, traduzione | italiener, italienisch, italiano |
Portuguese | dicionário, definição, tradução | portugiser, portugiesisch, portoghese, português, portugués |
Spanish | diccionario, definición, traducción | spanisch, spagnolo, espanhol, español |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | englisch, inglese, inglês, inglés |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Derivations 6. Anagrams 7. Orthography 8. Bibliography |
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