Associations to the word «Turgid»
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Wiktionary
TURGID, adjective. Distended beyond the natural state by some internal agent, especially fluid, or expansive force.
TURGID, adjective. (of language or style) Overly complex and difficult to understand; grandiloquent; bombastic.
Dictionary definition
TURGID, adjective. Ostentatiously lofty in style; "a man given to large talk"; "tumid political prose".
TURGID, adjective. 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".
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