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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

SRO, bagging, baggy, ballooning, bellied, bellying, bellylike, billowing, billowy, bloated, bosomy, brimful, brimming, bulbose, bulbous, bumped, bumpy, bunched, bunchy, bursting, capacity, chock-full, chuck-full, congested, convex, cram-full, crammed, distended, farci, filled, flush, full, full to bursting, hillocky, hummocky, jam-packed, moutonnee, overfull, overstuffed, packed, packed like sardines, plenary, pneumatic, potbellied, pouching, ready to burst, replete, rotund, round, rounded, rounded out, satiated, saturated, soaked, standing room only, stuffed, surfeited, swelling, swollen, topful, verrucated, verrucose, warty

Dictionary Results for bulging:

1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

bulging
    adj 1: curving or bulging outward [syn: convex, bulging]
           [ant: concave]
    2: curving outward [syn: bellied, bellying, bulbous,
       bulging, bulgy, protuberant]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

bulging \bulging\ adj.
   1. 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.
        [WordNet 1.5]

   2. curving outward.

   Syn: bellied, bellying, bulbous, bulgy, protuberant.
        [WordNet 1.5]

3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

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.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. To bilge, as a ship; to founder.
      [1913 Webster]

            And scattered navies bulge on distant shores.
                                                  --Broome.
      [1913 Webster]

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