Word Meanings - PROTUBERATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To swell, or be prominent, beyond the adjacent surface; to bulge out. S. Sharp.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PROTUBERATE)

• Swell
• Dilate
• extend
• enlarges
• heighten
• heave
• enhance
• rise
• expand
• increase
• augment
• protuberate
• aggravate
• amplify
• distend

Related words: (words related to PROTUBERATE)

• PROTUBERATE
  To swell, or be prominent, beyond the adjacent surface; to bulge out. S. Sharp.
• EXTENDLESSNESS
  Unlimited extension. An . . . extendlessness of excursions. Sir. M. Hale.
• ENHANCEMENT
  The act of increasing, or state of being increased; augmentation; aggravation; as, the enhancement of value, price, enjoyments, crime.
• EXTENDANT
  Displaced. Ogilvie.
• SWELLTOAD
  A swellfish.
• EXTEND
  To value, as lands taken by a writ of extent in satisfaction of a debt; to assign by writ of extent. Extended letter , a letter, or style of type, having a broader face than is usual for a letter or type of the same height. Note: This is extended
• AUGMENTATION
  A additional charge to a coat of arms, given as a mark of honor. Cussans. (more info) 1. The act or process of augmenting, or making larger, by addition, expansion, or dilation; increase. 2. The state of being augmented; enlargement. 3. The thing
• AUGMENT
  To add an augment to. (more info) augere to increase; perh. akin to Gr. wax, v., and eke, v.: cf. F. 1. To enlarge or increase in size, amount, or degree; to swell; to make bigger; as, to augment an army by reëforcements; rain augments a stream;
• INCREASEMENT
  Increase. Bacon.
• EXTENDIBLE
  Liable to be taken by a writ of extent. (more info) 1. Capable of being extended, susceptible of being stretched, extended, enlarged, widened, or expanded.
• EXPANDER
  Anything which causes expansion esp. a tool for stretching open or expanding a tube, etc.
• ENHANCER
  One who enhances; one who, or that which, raises the amount, price, etc.
• HEAVEN
  hevan, LG. heben, heven, Icel. hifinn; of uncertain origin, cf. D. hemel, G. himmel, Icel. himmin, Goth. himins; perh. akin to, or influenced by, the root of E. heave, or from a root signifying to cover, cf. Goth. gaham to put on, clothe one's
• HEAVENLY
  1. Pertaining to, resembling, or inhabiting heaven; celestial; not earthly; as, heavenly regions; heavenly music. As is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly. 1 Cor. xv.
• HEAVE OFFERING
  An offering or oblation heaved up or elevated before the altar, as the shoulder of the peace offering. See Wave offering. Ex. xxix.
• DILATED
  Widening into a lamina or into lateral winglike appendages. (more info) 1. Expanded; enlarged. Shak.
• HEAVER
  A bar used as a lever. Totten. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, heaves or lifts; a laborer employed on docks in handling freight; as, a coal heaver.
• DILATER
  One who, or that which, dilates, expands, o r enlarges.
• ENHANCE
  en- + haucier to lift, raise up, from an assumed L. altiare, fr. L. altus high; cf. Pr. enansar, enanzar, to advance, exalt, and 1. To raise or lift up; to exalt. Wyclif. Who, naught aghast, his mighty hand enhanced. Spenser. 2. To advance;
• SWELL
  1. To grow larger; to dilate or extend the exterior surface or dimensions, by matter added within, or by expansion of the inclosed substance; as, the legs swell in dropsy; a bruised part swells; a bladder swells by inflation. 2. To increase in
• REINCREASE
  To increase again.
• UPSWELL
  To swell or rise up.
• DISAUGMENT
  To diminish.
• SHEAVED
  Made of straw. Shak.
• THEAVE
  A ewe lamb of the first year; also, a sheep three years old. Halliwell.
• UNSWELL
  To sink from a swollen state; to subside. Chaucer.
• HEARTSWELLING
  Rankling in, or swelling, the heart. "Heartswelling hate." Spenser.
• SUBDILATED
  Partially dilated.