Turgent

[tә:dʒәnt]

Definition

(a.) Rising into a tumor, or a puffy state; swelling; tumid; as, turgent humors.

(a.) Inflated; bombastic; turgid; pompous.

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Definition

adj. swelling: rising into a tumour: inflated: bombastic.—adv. Tur′gently.—ns. Turges′cence Turges′cency.—adjs. Turges′cent swelling: growing big; Tur′gid swollen: extended beyond the natural size: pompous: bombastic.—ns. Turgid′ity Tur′gidness.—adv. Tur′gidly.—n. Turgor (tur′gor) state of being full the normal condition of the capillaries.

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