beetle

beetle

verb

Definition of BEETLE

to extend outward beyond a usual point <houses in the town commonly have second stories that beetle over the ground floors, and the overhang is known as a “bump”>

Synonyms bag, balloon, beetle, belly, billow, bunch, jut, overhang, poke, pooch [chiefly dialect], pouch, pout, project, protrude, stand out, start, stick out, swell

Related Words dome; blow up, inflate; dilate, distend, expand; mushroom, snowball; elongate, extend, lengthen, stretch

Near Antonyms compress, condense, constrict, contract, shrink