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tumescent


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Tumescent  \Tu*mes"cent\,  a. 
  Slightly  tumid;  swollen,  as  certain  moss  capsules. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  tumescent 
  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"  [syn:  {bloated},  {distended},  {puffed},  {puffy}, 
  {swollen},  {tumid}] 




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