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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.

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