Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Swollen; distended. Used of a body part or organ.
- adjective Of a bulging shape; protuberant.
- adjective Overblown; bombastic.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Swollen; slightly inflated; tumefied: as, a tumid leg; tumid flesh.
- Protuberant; rising above the level.
- Swelling in sound or sense; pompous; bombastic; inflated: as, a tumid expression; a tumid style.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Swelled, enlarged, or distended
- adjective Rising above the level; protuberant.
- adjective Swelling in sound or sense; pompous; puffy; inflated; bombastic; falsely sublime; turgid.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
swollen ,enlarged ,bulging - adjective
cancerous , unhealthy
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas
- adjective ostentatiously lofty in style
- adjective of sexual organs; stiff and rigid
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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= veil = is thick, and the annulus narrow and very thick or "tumid," easily breaking up and disappearing.
Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. George Francis Atkinson 1886
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The outermost part is a tough scab-like purple scale, but within is a tumid floret of a highly complex design.
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The buttons of her blouse tug around her tumid breasts.
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It would be so easy to write the article off as the ramblings of a gynophobic choad, but loath as I am to admit it, there is a faint miasma of truth hovering in that tumid swamp.
Frankie Thomas: Enter the Contest to Make Christopher Hitchens Laugh! 2008
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Times readers who got through the tumid chunk he offered were reminded that dust has its purposes.
Good and Grumpy 2006
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In a labial dawn I savoured salty draughts of liquor springing from your tumid lips, luxuriated in a magnanimity your primal crouch expressed, heard half-suppressed love-cries tell the tumult in your loins.
When I Close My Eyes (rev) Ivan Donn Carswell 2008
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Times readers who got through the tumid chunk he offered were reminded that dust has its purposes.
Good and Grumpy 2006
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The whorls are posteriorly gibbose or tumid at the sutures, and the callus is less spreading than in others of the genus.
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The thing jumped into my mind and stopped its tumid flow for a moment.
In the Days of the Comet Herbert George 2006
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On his left shin there were two bruises, one a leaden yellow graduating here and there into purple, and another, obviously of more recent date, of a blotchy red — tumid and threatening.
The Wheels of Chance: a bicycling idyll Herbert George 2006
chained_bear commented on the word tumid
"Now there was the easy motion of the boat, the creak of thole-pins, the sea-air on his stiff, tumid, sightless face; and now among the perceptions that failed him were those of pain and of time..."
--Patrick O'Brian, The Nutmeg of Consolation, 371
March 9, 2008