tumescent
English
Etymology
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From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin tumēscēns (“swelling, bloating”)
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -ɛsənt
Adjective
tumescent (comparative more tumescent, superlative most tumescent)
- Swollen or distended with fluid, as of erectile tissue.
- Inflated or overblown.
- 1982, Arlene Croce, Going to the dance (page 395)
- I think that in Gloria MacMillan uses this tumescent language for a comparatively modest purpose — to show how it was between men and women in the war — and the language inflates and perverts his meaning unconscionably.
- 1982, Arlene Croce, Going to the dance (page 395)
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Related terms
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Translations
swollen or distended with fluid
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inflated or overblown
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Latin
Verb
(deprecated template usage) tumēscent