bulge

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of BULGE

to extend outward beyond a usual point <the sides of the returning camper's suitcase bulged with a month's worth of dirty laundry>

Synonyms bag, balloon, beetle, belly, billow, bunch, jut, overhang, poke, pooch [chiefly dialect], pouch, pout, project, protrude, stand out, start, stick out, swell

Related Words dome; blow up, inflate; dilate, distend, expand; mushroom, snowball; elongate, extend, lengthen, stretch

Near Antonyms compress, condense, constrict, contract, shrink

to be copiously supplied <this guidebook to San Francisco positively bulges with useful information>

Synonyms brim, bristle, bulge, burst, bustle, buzz, crawl, hum, overflow, pullulate, swarm, teem

Near Antonyms lack, need, want

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