Meaning of intumescence | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The process of swelling up or the condition of being swollen.
   uncountable
2. An instance of such swelling.
   countable

Examples

“...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.”

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