belly

The front part of your body below your chest, where your stomach is.

• My belly hurts.
• The baby lay on her belly.
• He rubbed the dog’s belly while it rested beside him.

Similar words: tummy, abdomen, stomach

Common phrases: belly button, on your belly, rub someone’s belly, beer belly

The part inside a female’s body where a baby grows before birth.

• The child grew in her belly.
• She carried new life within her belly.
• He spoke of the months spent in his mother’s belly.

Similar words: womb, uterus

Common phrases: mother’s belly, within her belly

To swell or curve outward, often because wind pushes against something.

• The sail began to belly.
• Strong winds bellied the canvas outward.
• The curtains were bellying out through the open window.

How to use it: belly out (The curtain bellied out in the breeze.)

Similar words: bulge, swell, billow

Common phrases: belly out, belly in wind