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verb Intumesce v. i. (past & past part. intumesced; pres. part. intumescing) To enlarge or expand with heat; to swell; specifically, to swell up or bubble up under the action of heat, as before the blowpipe. "In a higher heat, it intumesces, and melts into a yellowish black mass."
Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48
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