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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
tumefy .
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Examples
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Then you will need aid indeed, and most quickly; for within the span of a few heart-beats the wounded flesh chills, tumefies, softens.
Two Years in the French West Indies Lafcadio Hearn 1877
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