Object

• outward: Make your abdominal muscles bulge outwards to " make your waist wide " .

• wallet: Must be the strain of carrying that bulging wallet in his trousers.

• belly: Tash: ( patting her bulging belly ) Thanks.

• sack: Anyway, from the depths of my bulging sack - I bring you news of remakes!

• eye: Slightly bulging eyes, red face; nothing to reassure me.

Converse of object

• surmount: Climb the steep wall on the left and surmount a bulge on doubtful blocks.

• climb: Climb the bulge direct using obvious holes to the top.

• beat: Delicious, nutritious, beating the bulge, at Co-op prices I can afford to indulge.

• battle: They exercised religiously, yet a year later Yvonne was still battling the bulge.

Adjective modifier

• equatorial: While there are higher mountains, by virtue of the equatorial bulge, Chimborazo summit is the point on earth nearest the sun.

• unsightly: And the unsightly bulge of stubborn belly fat isn't the only problem.

• galactic: The inner part of our galaxy is the so-called galactic bulge.

• slight: Near the middle of the platform, the skiff was half set in the ship's hull, making a slight bulge.

• central: All three galaxies possess a central bulge of similar brightness.

Noun used with modifier

• bonnet: Distinctive bonnet bulges are necessary to cover the tall C-series engine.

• disk: The heat thickens and seals the disk wall and reduces inner disk bulge and irritation of the spinal nerve.

Preposition: in

• wall: An aneurysm is a bulge in the wall of a blood vessel.