Definitions
cause to bulge or swell outwards
Word origin
From Middle English bulge (“leather bag; hump”), from Old Northern French boulge (“leather bag”), from Late Latin bulga (“leather sack”), from Gaulish *bulga, *bulgos, from Proto-Celtic *bolgos (“sack, bag, stomach”). Cognate with bilge, belly, bellows, budget, French bouge, German Balg, etc. Doublet of budge, and from the same root as belly and bellows. See also budget.
Used in a sentence
“a bulge in a wall”
“There was a bulge in my pocket where I kept my wallet.”
“The collapse happened within three weeks of an examining engineer observing that a bulge in the brickwork had increased since a previous inspection.”
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Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Swelling outward curve”5 letters
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