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tumid

 

  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Tumid  \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. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  tumid 
  adj  1:  ostentatiously  lofty  in  style;  "a  man  given  to  large  talk"; 
  "tumid  political  prose"  [syn:  {bombastic},  {declamatory}, 
  {large},  {orotund},  {turgid}] 
  2:  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}, 
  {tumescent}] 
  3:  (physiology)  of  sexual  organs;  stiff  and  rigid  [syn:  {erect}]




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