belly
[noun]
Synonyms:
- stomach, abdomen, corporation (informal), gut, insides (informal), paunch, potbelly, tummy
[verb]
Synonyms:
- swell out, billow, bulge, fill, spread, swell

[TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲

I. bel‧ly¹ /ˈbeli/ noun (plural bellies) [countable]
[Language: Old English; Origin: belg 'bag, skin']

1.
a) your stomach:
a full belly
b) British English the front part of your body between your chest and your legs Synonym : abdomen:
She was lying on her belly.

2. the middle part of an animal’s body, near its stomach

3. literary a curved or rounded part of an object:
the belly of a plane

4. black-bellied/fat-bellied/big-bellied etc having a black, fat, big etc stomach

5. go belly up informal if a business or company goes belly up, it stops operating because it cannot pay its debts
⇒ beer belly, potbelly

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲

II. belly² (also belly out) verb (past tense and past participle bellied, present participle bellying, third person singular bellies) [intransitive] literary
to fill with air and become rounder in shape

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲

belly
noun
ADJ. empty, full | flat | fat, pot Since he turned 30 he's started to develop a pot belly.
distended, swollen | beer (= a fat stomach from drinking too much beer)
BELLY + VERB bulge | hang He's so fat, his belly hangs over his trousers.
swell
PREP. in your ~ She felt the child in her belly kick.

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