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say it: buhlj
bulge is a verb and noun meaning "swell or protrude outwards". It is pronounced /ˈbʌldʒ/ — buhlj. It carries 5 recorded senses.
swell or protrude outwards
“His stomach bulged after the huge meal”
bulge out; form a bulge outward, or be so full as to appear to bulge
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”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for bulge come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.