PROTUBERATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does protuberate mean? 

• PROTUBERATE (verb)
  The verb PROTUBERATE has 2 senses:

1. cause to bulge out or project

2. form a rounded prominence

  Familiarity information: PROTUBERATE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PROTUBERATE (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cause to bulge out or project

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Verb group:

protuberate (form a rounded prominence)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

Derivation:

protuberance (something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings)

protuberant (curving outward)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Form a rounded prominence

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Context example:

The starved child's belly protuberated

Hypernyms (to "protuberate" is one way to...):

bag; bulge (bulge out; form a bulge outward, or be so full as to appear to bulge)

Verb group:

protuberate (cause to bulge out or project)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Derivation:

protuberance (the condition of being protuberant; the condition of bulging out)

protuberant (curving outward)