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bulged

verb , past tense of bulge

Synonyms and Antonyms of bulged

1 to extend outward beyond a usual point

the sides of the returning camper's suitcase bulged with a month's worth of dirty laundry

Synonyms of bulged

bagged, ballooned, beetled, bellied, billowed, bunched, jutted, overhung, poked, pooched [chiefly dialect], pouched, pouted, projected, protruded, started, stood out, stuck out, swelled

Words Related to bulged

blew up, inflated

dilated, distended, expanded

mushroomed, snowballed

elongated, extended, lengthened, stretched

Near Antonyms of bulged

compressed, condensed, constricted, contracted, shrank (or shrunk)

2 to be copiously supplied

this guidebook to San Francisco positively bulges with useful information

Synonyms of bulged

abounded, brimmed, bristled, burst (also bursted), bustled, buzzed, crawled, hummed, overflowed, pullulated, swarmed, teemed

Near Antonyms of bulged

lacked, needed, wanted

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