About The Word Tumid
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Tumid
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What's The Definition Of Tumid?
[adj] (physiology) of sexual organs; stiff and rigid
[adj] abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas; "hungry children with bloated stomachs"; "he had a grossly distended stomach"; "eyes with puffed (or puffy) lids"; "swollen hands"; "tumescent tissue"; "puffy tumid flesh" [adj] ostentatiously lofty in style; "a man given to large talk"; "tumid political prose" Synonyms | Synonyms for Tumid: bloated | bombastic | declamatory | distended | erect | hard | large | orotund | puffed | puffy | rhetorical | swollen | tumescent | turgid | unhealthy Related Terms | Find terms related to Tumid: See Also | Tumid In Webster's Dictionary \Tu"mid\, a. [L. tumidus, fr. tumere to swell; cf. Skr.
tumra strong, fat. Cf. {Thumb}.]
1. Swelled, enlarged, or distended; as, a tumid leg; tumid
flesh.
2. Rising above the level; protuberant.
So high as heaved the tumid hills. --Milton.
3. Swelling in sound or sense; pompous; puffy; inflated;
bombastic; falsely sublime; turgid; as, a tumid
expression; a tumid style. -- {Tu"mid*ly}, adv. --
{Tu"mid*ness}, n.
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