What is the meaning of intumesce?

Move upwards in bubbles, as from the effect of heating; also used metaphorically.
- usage: "Gases bubbled up from the earth"; "Marx's ideas have bubbled up in many places in Latin America"
- synonyms: bubble up
Expand abnormally.
- usage: "The bellies of the starving children are swelling"
- synonyms: swell, swell up, tumefy, tumesce

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