опухать — meaning in English

English meaning

• blubber verb To cry loudly and messily, often with heavy sobbing.

Senses

опухать is used for these senses in English:

• blubber (archaic, also, figurative) To wet (one's eyes or face) by crying; to beweep; also, to cause (one's face) to disfigure or swell through crying.
• swell up (idiomatic) To become swollen

blubber — full definition

1. verb To cry loudly and messily, often with heavy sobbing.
2. noun The thick layer of fat beneath the skin of whales and other marine mammals that keeps them warm.
3. noun Informal: excess body fat on a person.

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