Turgid

//ˈtɜː.d͡ʒɪd//

Synonyms for "turgid" (119 found)

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Translations

48 translations across 17 languages.

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Bulgarian

4 entries
  • високопарен adj (pompous or bombastic)
  • надут adj (pompous or bombastic)
  • подпухнал adj (distended beyond natural state)
  • подут adj (distended beyond natural state)

Czech

4 entries
  • bombastický adj (pompous or bombastic)
  • nabubřelý adj (pompous or bombastic)
  • nadutý adj (pompous or bombastic)
  • napuchlý adj (distended beyond natural state)

Dutch

4 entries
  • gezwollen adj (distended beyond natural state)
  • gezwollen adj (pompous or bombastic)
  • opgezwollen adj (distended beyond natural state)
  • wollig adj (pompous or bombastic)

Finnish

3 entries
  • mahtipontinen adj (pompous or bombastic)
  • suureellinen adj (pompous or bombastic)
  • turvonnut adj (distended beyond natural state)

French

1 entries
  • turgide adj (distended beyond natural state)

Galician

1 entries
  • turxescente adj (distended beyond natural state)

Georgian

3 entries
  • გაბერილი adj (distended beyond natural state)
  • მაღალფარდოვანი adj (pompous or bombastic)
  • პომპეზური adj (pompous or bombastic)

German

4 entries
  • angeschwollen adj (distended beyond natural state)
  • aufgeblasen adj (distended beyond natural state)
  • aufgeblasen adj (pompous or bombastic)
  • geschwollen adj (distended beyond natural state)

Irish

1 entries
  • borrtha adj (distended beyond natural state)

Italian

1 entries
  • turgido adj (distended beyond natural state)

Latin

2 entries
  • turgidus adj (distended beyond natural state)
  • turgidus adj (pompous or bombastic)

Norwegian

3 entries
  • pompøs adj (pompous or bombastic)
  • svulstig adj (distended beyond natural state)
  • svulstig adj (pompous or bombastic)

Portuguese

2 entries
  • empolado adj (pompous or bombastic)
  • túrgido adj (distended beyond natural state)

Russian

3 entries
  • напы́щенный adj (pompous or bombastic)
  • опу́хший adj (distended beyond natural state)
  • помпе́зный adj (pompous or bombastic)

Spanish

3 entries
  • ampuloso adj (pompous or bombastic)
  • turgente adj (distended beyond natural state)
  • túrgido adj (distended beyond natural state)

Swedish

2 entries
  • svulstig adj (distended beyond natural state)
  • uppsvullen adj (distended beyond natural state)

Turkish

3 entries
  • kabarık adj (distended beyond natural state)
  • şişik adj (distended beyond natural state)
  • şişmiş adj (distended beyond natural state)

Sample sentences

8 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

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

Source: tatoeba (10636342)

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.

Source: tatoeba (11620130)

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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