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Tumescent

//tuˈmɛsənt// adj

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Swollen or distended with fluid, as of erectile tissue.
  2. 2
    Inflated or overblown.

    "I think that in Gloria MacMillan uses this tumescent language for a comparatively modest purpose — to show how it was between men and women in the war — and the language inflates and perverts his meaning unconscionably."

Adjective
  1. 1
    abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas wordnet

Etymology

From Latin tumēscēns (“swelling, bloating”).

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