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Tumid

adjective

Ostentatiously lofty in style. Synonyms: bombastic, declamatory, large, orotund, turgid. "Tumid political prose"

Abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas. Synonyms: intumescent, puffy, tumescent, turgid. "He had a grossly distended stomach" , "Eyes with puffed (or puffy) lids" , "Swollen hands" , "Tumescent tissue" , "Puffy tumid flesh"

Of sexual organs; stiff and rigid. Synonym: erect.

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"Tumid" Quotes from Famous Books

... large," they weltered in motionless heaps—shapes more fantastic in ghoulish, blasting dismay, than ever wine-sodden brain of exhausted poet fevered into misbeing. He who dived in the swirling Maelstrom saw none to compare with them in horror: tentacular convolutions, tumid bulges, glaring orbs of sepian deformity, would have looked to him innocence beside such incarnations of hatefulness—every head the wicked flower that, bursting from an abominable stalk, perfected its ...

— Lilith • George MacDonald

Words linked to "Tumid" : tumescent, physiology, hard, rhetorical, unhealthy