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[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
tumid \tu"mid\, a. l. tumidus, fr. tumere to swell; cf. skr.
   tumra strong, fat. cf. thumb.
   1. swelled, enlarged, or distended; as, a tumid leg; tumid
      flesh.
      1913 webster

   2. rising above the level; protuberant.
      1913 webster

            so high as heaved the tumid hills.    --milton.
      1913 webster

   3. swelling in sound or sense; pompous; puffy; inflated;
      bombastic; falsely sublime; turgid; as, a tumid
      expression; a tumid style.
      1913 webster -- tu"midly, adv. -- tu"midness, n.
      1913 webster
see also:
thumb tu"midly tu"midness 
[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
tumid
     adj 1: ostentatiously lofty in style; "a man given to large talk";
            "tumid political prose" syn: bombastic, declamatory,
             large, orotund, turgid
     2: 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"
        syn: bloated, distended, puffed, puffy, swollen,
         tumescent, turgid
     3: of sexual organs; stiff and rigid syn: erect
see also:
bombastic declamatory large orotund turgid bloated 
distended puffed puffy swollen tumescent 
erect 
[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
51 moby thesaurus words for "tumid":
   aureate, bellied, bloated, blown up, bombastic, bug-eyed, bulged,
   dilated, distended, dropsical, edematous, enchymatous, euphuistic,
   exophthalmic, expanded, fat, flatulent, flowery, formal, fustian,
   gassy, goggle, goggled, grandiloquent, incrassate, inflated,
   magniloquent, mouthy, overblown, plethoric, pompous, pontifical,
   popeyed, pouched, puffed up, puffy, pursy, self-important, solemn,
   stilted, stuffy, swelled, swelling, swollen, tumescent, tumorous,
   turgescent, turgid, ventose, ventricose, windy





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