turgid

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turgid Definition

• (s) ostentatiously lofty in style; "a man given to large talk"; "tumid political prose"
• (s) 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"

turgid Synonyms

• bloated
• bombastic
• declamatory
• distended
• large
• orotund
• puffed
• puffy
• swollen
• tumescent
• tumid
• turgid