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Meaning of 'turgid'
Meaning of 'turgid' (Webster Dictionary)
1. Turgid 
[ a.]
- 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. [ a.]- Swelling in style or language; vainly ostentatious; bombastic; pompous; as, a turgid style of speaking.
Meaning of 'turgid' (Princeton's WordNet)
1. turgid [ s]
[ s]Meaning (1):
- ostentatiously lofty in style
- ostentatiously lofty in style
Example in sentence:
- a man given to large talk;
- tumid political prose
Meaning (2):
- abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas
- abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas
Example in sentence:
- eyes with puffed (or puffy) lids;
- he had a grossly distended stomach;
- hungry children with bloated stomachs;
- puffy tumid flesh;
- swollen hands;
- tumescent tissue
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