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bulging

verb , present participle of bulge

Synonyms and Antonyms of bulging

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 bulging

bagging, ballooning, beetling, bellying, billowing, bunching, jutting, overhanging, poking, pooching [chiefly dialect], pouching, pouting, projecting, protruding, standing out, starting, sticking out, swelling

Words Related to bulging

blowing up, inflating

dilating, distending, expanding

mushrooming, snowballing

elongating, extending, lengthening, stretching

Near Antonyms of bulging

compressing, condensing, constricting, contracting, shrinking

2 to be copiously supplied

this guidebook to San Francisco positively bulges with useful information

Synonyms of bulging

abounding, brimming, bristling, bursting, bustling, buzzing, crawling, humming, overflowing, pullulating, swarming, teeming

Near Antonyms of bulging

lacking, needing, wanting

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