"bulge" in the noun sense

1. bulge, bump, hump, swelling, gibbosity, gibbousness, jut, prominence, protuberance, protrusion, extrusion, excrescence

something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings

"the gun in his pocket made an obvious bulge"

"the hump of a camel"

"he stood on the rocky prominence"

"the occipital protuberance was well developed"

"the bony excrescence between its horns"

"bulge" in the verb sense

1. bulge, pouch, protrude

swell or protrude outwards

"His stomach bulged after the huge meal"

2. bulge, bag

bulge out form a bulge outward, or be so full as to appear to bulge

3. start, protrude, pop, pop out, bulge, bulge out, bug out, come out

bulge outward

"His eyes popped"

4. bulge, bulk

cause to bulge or swell outwards

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