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Turgid

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Adjective

1. bombastic, declamatory, large, orotund, tumid, turgid

ostentatiously lofty in style

Example Sentences:
'a man given to large talk'
'tumid political prose'

2. intumescent, puffy, tumescent, tumid, turgid

abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas

Example Sentences:
'hungry children with bloated stomachs'
'he had a grossly distended stomach'
'eyes with puffed (or puffy) lids'
'swollen hands'
'tumescent tissue'
'puffy tumid flesh'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.


Turgid

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adjective
1. 
swollen and distended; congested
2. 
(of style or language) pompous and high-flown; bombastic

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Turgid

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adjective
1. 
swollen; distended
2. 
bombastic; pompous; grandiloquent

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Turgid

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adj.
1. Excessively ornate or complex in style or language; grandiloquent: turgid prose.
2. Swollen or distended, as from a fluid; bloated: a turgid bladder; turgid veins.

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