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How to pronounce tumid in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms intumescent, puffy, tumescent, turgid
Derivation tumidity, tumidness


puffy tumid flesh.
Type Words
Synonyms erect
Derivation tumidity, tumidness
Type Words
Synonyms bombastic, declamatory, large, orotund, turgid


tumid political prose.

Examples of tumid

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Fellini has taken us all on this guided tour of his tumid nether world too many times before.
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The atmospheres are tumid with unreleased passion, and there are ample supplies of tea and sympathy.
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Nothing breaks a tumid erotic spell faster than giggling.
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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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  • Bombastic: ostentatiously lofty in style; "a man given to large talk"; "tumid political prose"
  • Puffy: 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"
  • Of sexual organs; stiff and rigid
  • (tumidness) tumidity: slight swelling of an organ or part
  • Swollen, enlarged, bulging; cancerous, unhealthy
  • (tumidity) The condition of being tumid
  • Especially of a part of the body: swollen, inflated, protuberant, bulging.
  • Adjective - 1. swollen; bulging 2. inflated or pompous