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English Dictionary: tumid	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for tumid
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
tumid adj ostentatiously lofty in style; "a man given to large talk"; "tumid political prose" Synonym(s): bombastic, declamatory, large, orotund, tumid, turgid abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas; "hungry children with bloated stomachs"; "he had a grossly distended stomach"; "eyes with puffed (or puffy) lids"; "swollen hands"; "tumescent tissue"; "puffy tumid flesh" Synonym(s): puffy, intumescent, tumescent, tumid, turgid of sexual organs; stiff and rigid Synonym(s): tumid, erect
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Tumid \Tu"mid\, a. [L. tumidus, fr. tumere to swell; cf. Skr. tumra strong, fat. Cf. {Thumb}.] 1. Swelled, enlarged, or distended; as, a tumid leg; tumid flesh. 2. Rising above the level; protuberant. So high as heaved the tumid hills. --Milton. 3. Swelling in sound or sense; pompous; puffy; inflated; bombastic; falsely sublime; turgid; as, a tumid expression; a tumid style. -- {Tu"midly}, adv. -- {Tu"midness}, n.