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tumid

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  1. 1. a. Swelled, enlarged, or distended; as, a tumid leg; tumid flesh. Source: opted
  2. 2. a. Rising above the level; protuberant. Source: opted
  3. 3. a. Swelling in sound or sense; pompous; puffy; inflated; bombastic; falsely sublime; turgid; as, a tumid expression; a tumid style. Source: opted
  4. 4. adj. ostentatiously lofty in style Source: wordnet
  5. 5. adj. abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas Source: wordnet
  6. 6. adj. of sexual organs; stiff and rigid Source: wordnet
  7. 7. 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. Source: webster
  8. 8. s. of sexual organs; stiff and rigid Source: ecdict

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