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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.
- Swelling in style or language; vainly ostentatious; bombastic; pompous; as, a turgid style of speaking.

Meaning of 'turgid' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . turgid [ s]
Meaning (1):
- 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
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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