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1. (adj.) turgid
swollen; distended; tumid.
2. turgid
inflated, overblown, or pompous; bombastic:
turgid language.
Etymology: (1660–70; < L turgidus=turg(ēre) to swell +-idus -id4)
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Princeton's WordNet |
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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"
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1. (adj) turgid
distended beyond the natural state by some internal agent or expansive force; swelled; swollen; bloated; inflated; tumid; -- especially applied to an enlarged part of the body; as, a turgid limb; turgid fruit
2. (adj) turgid
swelling in style or language; vainly ostentatious; bombastic; pompous; as, a turgid style of speaking
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