tumid
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Latin tumidus (“swollen”).
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Adjective[edit]
tumid (comparative more tumid, superlative most tumid)
- swollen, enlarged, bulging
- cancerous, unhealthy
- pompous, bombastic
- 1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, (please specify the book or page number):
- Tumid blustering, with more or less of sincerity, which need not be entirely sincere, yet the sincerer the better, is like to go far.
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tumid