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Definitions for Bulge

[1] a rounded projection, bend, or protruding part; protuberance; hump: a bulge in a wall.
[2] any sudden increase, as of numbers, sales, or prices: the bulge in profits.
[3] a rising in small waves on the surface of a body of water, caused by the action of a fish or fishes in pursuit of food underwater.
[4] to swell or bend outward; be protuberant.
[5] to be filled to capacity: The box bulged with cookies.
[6] to make protuberant; cause to swell.
[7] Battle of the, the final major German counteroffensive in World War II, begun December 16, 1944, and thrusting deep into Allied territory in N and E Belgium: repulsed January 1945.
[8] a swelling or an outward curve
[9] a sudden increase in number or volume, esp of population
[10] British another name for baby boom
[11] British the projecting part of an army's front line; salient
[12] to swell outwards
[13] Battle of the Bulge (in World War II) the final major German counteroffensive in 1944 when the Allied forces were pushed back into NE Belgium; the Germans were repulsed by Jan 1945

Words related to Bulge

wart, lump, nodule, protrude, swell, sag, bloat, projection, bump, swelling, promontory, growth, excrescence, dilation, bunch, protrusion, salient, hump, sac, blob

Words nearby Bulge

bulgakov, bulganin, bulgar, bulgaria, bulgarian, bulge, bulge, battle of the, bulger, bulgur, bulgy, bulimarexia

Origin of Bulge

1200–50; Middle English: bag, hump < Old French < Latin bulga bag < Celtic; compare Irish bolg bag

Other words from Bulge

bulg·ing·ly , adverb
out·bulge , verb, out·bulged, out·bulg·ing.

Word origin for Bulge

C13: from Old French bouge , from Latin bulga bag, probably of Gaulish origin

Synonyms for Bulge

lump, nodule, wart, appendage, blob, bump, bunch, bunching, convexity, dilation, distention, excess, excrescence, gibbosity, growth, hump, intumescence, jut, outgrowth, outthrust, projection, prominence, promontory, protrusion, protuberance, sac, sagging, salience, salient, superfluity, swelling, tuberosity, tumefaction, tumor, bagginess, nodulation