a rounded projection, bend, or protruding part; protuberance; hump

a bulge in a wall.

any sudden increase, as of numbers, sales, or prices

the bulge in profits.

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.

to swell or bend outward; be protuberant.

to be filled to capacity

The box bulged with cookies.

to make protuberant; cause to swell.

noun

depression

verb

cave in , depress

noun

appendage , bagginess , blob , bump , bunch , bunching , convexity , dilation , distention , excess , excrescence , gibbosity , growth , hump , intumescence , jut , lump , nodulation , nodule , outgrowth , outthrust , projection , prominence , promontory , protrusion , protuberance , sac , sagging , salience , salient , superfluity , swelling , tuberosity , tumefaction , tumor , wart , knob , knot , overhang , better , draw , drop , edge , superiority , upper hand , vantage

verb

bag , balloon , beetle , belly , bilge , billow , bloat , blob , bug out , dilate , distend , enlarge , expand , extrude , jut , overhang , poke , pop out , pouch , protrude , protuberate , puff out , sag , stand out , stick out , swell , project , appendage , blister , bug , bump , cask , extend , flask , growth , hump , knob , lump , projection , protuberance , swelling , wallet