Intumescence

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解释:

(noun.) the increase in volume of certain substances when they are heated (often accompanied by release of water).

(noun.) swelling up with blood or other fluids (as with congestion).

整理:尼古拉斯--From WordNet

解释:

(n.) The act or process of swelling or enlarging; also, the state of being swollen; expansion; tumidity; especially, the swelling up of bodies under the action of heat.

(n.) Anything swollen or enlarged, as a tumor.

巴顿整理

同义词及近义词：

n. Swelling.

编辑:罗德里克

同义词及反义词：

SYN:Swelling, protuberance, turgescence

ANT:Subsidence, evenness, attenuation, concavity

盖尔校对

解释:

n. the action of swelling: a swelling: a tumid state.—v.i. Intumesce′ to swell up.

录入:麦克唐纳