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beetle

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms 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 of beetle

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

Words Related to beetle

blow up, inflate

dilate, distend, expand

mushroom, snowball

elongate, extend, lengthen, stretch

Near Antonyms of beetle

compress, condense, constrict, contract, shrink

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