[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

turgid \tur"gid\ t^ur"ji^d, a. l. turgidus, from turgere
   to swell.
   1. distended beyond the natural state by some internal agent
      or expansive force; swelled; swollen; bloated; inflated;
      tumid; -- especially applied to an enlarged part of the
      body; as, a turgid limb; turgid fruit.
      1913 webster

            a bladder . . . held near the fire grew turgid.
                                                  --boyle.
      1913 webster

   2. swelling in style or language; vainly ostentatious;
      bombastic; pompous; as, a turgid style of speaking.
      1913 webster -- tur"gidly, adv. -- tur"gidness, n.
      1913 webster
see also:
tur"gidly tur"gidness 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

turgid
     adj 1: ostentatiously lofty in style; "a man given to large talk";
            "tumid political prose" syn: bombastic, declamatory,
             large, orotund, tumid
     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, tumid
see also:
bombastic declamatory large orotund tumid bloated 
distended puffed puffy swollen tumescent 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

67 moby thesaurus words for "turgid":
   latinate, aureate, awkward, bellied, bloated, blown up, bombastic,
   bug-eyed, bulged, cramped, cumbrous, dilated, distended, dropsical,
   edematous, elephantine, enchymatous, euphuistic, exophthalmic, fat,
   flatulent, flowery, forced, formal, fustian, gassy, goggle,
   goggled, grandiloquent, guinde, halting, heavy, incrassate,
   inflated, inkhorn, labored, leaden, lumbering, magniloquent,
   mouthy, overblown, plethoric, pompous, ponderous, pontifical,
   popeyed, pouched, puffed up, puffy, pursy, self-important,
   sesquipedalian, solemn, stiff, stilted, stuffy, swelled, swelling,
   swollen, tumescent, tumid, tumorous, turgescent, unwieldy, ventose,
   ventricose, windy

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