Synonyms for protrusion
proʊˈtru ʒən, prə-pro·tru·sion

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1. protrusion

   Synonyms:
   projection, protuberance, convexity, tongue

   Antonyms:
   recess, cavity, hollow, concavity, mouth

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1. bulge, bump, hump, swelling, gibbosity, gibbousness, jut, prominence, protuberance, protrusion, extrusion, excrescencenoun

   something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings

   "the gun in his pocket made an obvious bulge"; "the hump of a camel"; "he stood on the rocky prominence"; "the occipital protuberance was well developed"; "the bony excrescence between its horns"

   Synonyms:
   swelling, lump, expulsion, prominence, gibbousness, jut, jutting, intumescence, extrusion, bulge, projection, protuberance, gibbosity, intumescency, bump, blow, puffiness, hump, excrescence

2. protrusion, projection, jut, juttingnoun

   the act of projecting out from something

   Synonyms:
   expulsion, projection, prominence, gibbousness, jut, ejection, jutting, extrusion, bump, bulge, protuberance, gibbosity, project, acoustic projection, hump, forcing out, sound projection, swelling, excrescence

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1. List of paraphrases for "protrusion":

   projection

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