Tumescent

//tuˈmɛsənt//

"Tumescent" in a Sentence (1 examples)

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.

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.