tumescent
[adjective]
Synonyms: inflated, dropsical, dropsied, flatulent, overblown, tumid, turgid, windy, rhetorical, aureate, bombastic, euphuistic, flowery, grandiloquent, magniloquent, swelling, swollen

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Related Words: bloated, bulging

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tu‧mes‧cent /tjuːˈmesənt $ tuː-/ adjective technical
[Date: 1800-1900; Language: Latin; Origin: present participle of tumescere 'to swell up', from tumere; ⇒ tumor]
swollen or swelling
—tumescence noun [uncountable]

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