intumescence
nounEtymology See intumescent.
1
The process of swelling up or the condition of being swollen.
2
An instance of such swelling.
- ...but there are other causes of change, which, though slow in their operation, and invisible in their progress, are perhaps as much superior to human resistance, as the revolutions of the sky, or intumescence of the tide.1755, Samuel Johnson, A Dictionary of the English Language, page 10:
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