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bulge

Pronunciation: (bulj), [key]
—n., v., bulged, bulg•ing.

—n.
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.

—v.i.
1. to swell or bend outward; be protuberant.
2. to be filled to capacity: The box bulged with cookies.

—v.t.
to make protuberant; cause to swell.

Bulge

Pronunciation: (bulj), [key]
—n.
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.

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