Meaning

2 senses

  1. (intransitive)To bulge or billow outward.

    swell out or bulge out

  2. (transitive)To cause to bulge or billow outward.

    1834, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Happiness” (written in 1791), lines 30-31, The scene is changed and Fortune’s gale Shall belly out each prosperous sail.

Examples

1 sentences

  1. He got his belly button ripped out.

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Forms

bellies out, bellying out, bellied out, bellied out
Base formbelly out · to belly out
3rd person singularbellies out
Present participlebellying out
Past simplebellied out
Past participlebellied out

irregular

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theybelly out
he, she, itbellies out

Past simpleLesson

all personsbellied out

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave bellied out
he, she, ithas bellied out

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill belly out

Phrasal verbs

2 phrasal verbs

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • swell out or bulge out:belly

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
bellowB2bellyA2bellyachebelongA2
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