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 Definitions of tumid  [ˈtu mɪd, ˈtyu-]  

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Definition of 'tumid' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (adj.) tumid
swollen, or affected with swelling, as a part of the body.

2.  tumid
pompous or inflated, as language; turgid; bombastic.

3.  tumid
seeming to swell; bulging.

Etymology:  (1535–45; < L tumidus swollen =tum(ēre) to swell +-idus -id4)

Definition of 'tumid' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (adj) bombastic, declamatory, large, orotund, tumid, turgid
ostentatiously lofty in style
"a man given to large talk"; "tumid political prose"

2. (adj) puffy, intumescent, tumescent, tumid, turgid
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"

3. (adj) tumid, erect
of sexual organs; stiff and rigid


Definition of 'tumid' Webster Dictionary 

1. (adj) tumid
swelled, enlarged, or distended; as, a tumid leg; tumid flesh

2. (adj) tumid
rising above the level; protuberant

3. (adj) tumid
swelling in sound or sense; pompous; puffy; inflated; bombastic; falsely sublime; turgid; as, a tumid expression; a tumid style



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