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bilge
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n 1: water accumulated in the bilge of a ship [syn: bilge,
bilge water]
2: where the sides of the vessel curve in to form the bottom
v 1: cause to leak; "the collision bilged the vessel"
2: take in water at the bilge; "the tanker bilged" [syn:
bilge, take in water]
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bulge
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n 1: something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects
from its surroundings; "the gun in his pocket made an
obvious bulge"; "the hump of a camel"; "he stood on the
rocky prominence"; "the occipital protuberance was well
developed"; "the bony excrescence between its horns" [syn:
bulge, bump, hump, swelling, gibbosity,
gibbousness, jut, prominence, protuberance,
protrusion, extrusion, excrescence]
v 1: swell or protrude outwards; "His stomach bulged after the
huge meal" [syn: bulge, pouch, protrude]
2: bulge out; form a bulge outward, or be so full as to appear
to bulge [syn: bulge, bag]
3: bulge outward; "His eyes popped" [syn: start, protrude,
pop, pop out, bulge, bulge out, bug out, come
out]
4: cause to bulge or swell outwards [syn: bulge, bulk]
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divulge
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v 1: make known to the public information that was previously
known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a
secret; "The auction house would not disclose the price at
which the van Gogh had sold"; "The actress won't reveal how
old she is"; "bring out the truth"; "he broke the news to
her"; "unwrap the evidence in the murder case" [syn:
unwrap, disclose, let on, bring out, reveal,
discover, expose, divulge, break, give away, let
out]
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indulge
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v 1: give free rein to; "The writer indulged in metaphorical
language"
2: yield (to); give satisfaction to [syn: gratify, pander,
indulge]
3: enjoy to excess; "She indulges in ice cream" [syn: indulge,
luxuriate]
4: treat with excessive indulgence; "grandparents often pamper
the children"; "Let's not mollycoddle our students!" [syn:
pamper, featherbed, cosset, cocker, baby, coddle,
mollycoddle, spoil, indulge]
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overindulge
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v 1: overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself; "She
stuffed herself at the dinner"; "The kids binged on ice
cream" [syn: gorge, ingurgitate, overindulge, glut,
englut, stuff, engorge, overgorge, overeat,
gormandize, gormandise, gourmandize, binge, pig
out, satiate, scarf out]
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greenhalgh
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