Thesaurus / bellying
FEEDBACK- accumulate
- add to
- balloon
- bloat
- bulge
- enlarge
- expand
- fatten
- grow
- increase
- mount
- rise
- surge
- aggravate
- amplify
- augment
- belly
- billow
- blister
- dilate
- distend
- enhance
- extend
- heighten
- intensity
- plump
- pouch
- pout
- protrude
- puff
- tumefy
- uprise
- become bloated
- become distended
- become swollen
- be inflated
- fill out
- grow larger
- puff up
- round out
- well up
- undulate
- balloon
- belly
- bloat
- bounce
- bulge
- heave
- pitch
- ripple
- rock
- roll
- swell
- toss
- wave
- ebb and flow
- puff up
- rise and fall
- rise up
- bloat
- protrude
- swell
- bag
- balloon
- beetle
- billow
- dilate
- distend
- enlarge
- expand
- extrude
- jut
- overhang
- poke out
- protuberate
- bug out
- pop out
- puff out
- stand out
- stick out
- bulge
- bulge out
- bag
- balloon
- beetle
- belly
- bilge
- billow
- bloat
- dilate
- distend
- enlarge
- expand
- extrude
- jut
- jut out
- overhang
- poke out
- pouch
- project
- protrude
- swell
- bug out
- pop out
- puff out
- stand out
- stick out
- abridge
- decline
- decrease
- diminish
- drop
- fall
- lessen
- lose
- lower
- reduce
- shrink
- slump
- compress
- condense
- contract
- curtail
- shorten
- concentrate
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
How to use bellying in a sentence
The night breeze touched pale furry breasts, filled the bellying wings.
THE JEWELS OF APTORSAMUEL R. DELANYBut the platform at the manhole entrance jutted diagonally below him, fifteen feet down and twelve along the bellying curve.
THE GREAT DOME ON MERCURYARTHUR LEO ZAGATHawtayne bent his weight upon the tiller, and crouched to see under the bellying sail.
THE WHITE COMPANYARTHUR CONAN DOYLEThese well-known sounds were followed by a slight heel in the cutter, and by the bellying of all the sails.
THE PATHFINDERJAMES FENIMORE COOPERThe bellying part on the inside sprinkled with spots like little eyes.
AN ACCOUNT OF THE FOXGLOVE AND SOME OF ITS MEDICAL USESWILLIAM WITHERINGUp to the bar men were bellying, and the bartenders in white jackets were mixing drinks with masterly dexterity.
THE TRAIL OF '98ROBERT W. SERVICEClouds of snowy balloon-like canvas spring, as if by magic, to masts and yards, straining and bellying out with tremendous effort.
IN EASTERN SEASJ. J. SMITHA little stone column supports a bronze ship, its sails bellying robustly to the whip of the Pacific winds.
THE NATIVE SONINEZ HAYNES IRWINThey tried to cling to them so as to reach the top, but the bellying shape of the great masses rendered all hold impossible.
SALAMMBOGUSTAVE FLAUBERTBellying closer to the ground, Ben Bolt advanced upon him, creeping slowly like a cat stalking a mouse.
MICHAEL, BROTHER OF JERRYJACK LONDON