Definition of 'tumid'

Adjective

1. ostentatiously lofty in style; "a man given to large talk"; "tumid political prose"
      Synonyms: 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"
      Synonyms: bloated distended puffed puffy swollen intumescent tumescent turgid

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