Turgid

/ˈtɜː.d͡ʒɪd/

Synonyms for "turgid" (93 found)

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biological conditionlinguistic styleliterary stylephysical staterhetoricwriting style

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turgid languageturgid proseturgid rhetoricturgid styleturgid writing

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He pressed his turgid sex against the center of her womanhood.

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The hall was constructed in the manner of a Roman atrium, and from the oblong pool of turgid water in the centre a troop of fat and otiose rats fled weakly squealing at my approach.

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I have a turgid limb.

Source: wiktionary

A vegetable that is fully moist and firm will seem both crisp and more tender than the same vegetable limp from water loss. When we bite down on a vegetable turgid with water, the already-stressed cell walls readily break and the cells burst open; in a limp vegetable, chewing compresses the walls together, and we have to exert much more pressure to break through them.

Source: wiktionary

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