belly

Noun

Noun

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A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

Plural

bellies

Verb

Verb

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A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

present (v1)

belly

past (v2)

bellied

past participle (v3)

bellied

present participle

bellying

3rd person singular

bellies

Noun

Noun

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A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

1. 1.The abdomen (especially a fat one).

   • You've grown a belly over Christmas! Time to join the gym again.

2. 2.stomach (an organ in animals that stores food in the process of digestion)

   • My belly was full of wine.

3. 3.uterus (a reproductive organ of therian mammals in which the young are conceived and develop until birth)

   • Koala bears do not have belly buttons.

4. 4.The lower fuselage of an airplane.

   • There was no heat, and we shivered in the belly of the plane.

Verb

Verb

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A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

1. 1.To swell and become protuberant; to bulge or billow.

   • There were trees whose trunks bellied into huge swellings.

2. 2.To cause to swell out; to fill.

3. 3.To position one’s belly; to move on one’s belly.

   • Bellying forward to the edge of the clearing, he found Hans, lying on his face, feathered with arrows like a porcupine.

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• stomach