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bulging en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /ˈbʌldʒɪŋ/
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Meanings

  1. The shape or motion of something that bulges.
    • It was noticed that there had been saggings and bulgings in the trays. 1969, Sugar Technologists' Association of India, Proceedings:
    • Watt saw the little movements of the stuff, the little bulgings and crumplings, and the sudden indrawings, where it was nipped, between forefinger and thumb probably, for those are the nippers. 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC:

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bulging en · VERB

Pronunciation

  • /ˈbʌldʒɪŋ/
  • (Southern-England) audio

Meanings

  1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of bulge
    form of bulge