tu·mid /ˈtuməd, ˈtju-/
(a.)腫脹的,腫大的
tu·mid /ˈt(j)uməd/ 形容詞
(拉tumidus)腫脹的,鼓起的
Tu·mid a.
1. Swelled, enlarged, or distended; as, a tumid leg; tumid flesh.
2. Rising above the level; protuberant.
So high as heaved the tumid hills. --Milton.
3. Swelling in sound or sense; pompous; puffy; inflated; bombastic; falsely sublime; turgid; as, a tumid expression; a tumid style.
-- Tu*mid*ly, adv. -- Tu*mid*ness, n.
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tumid
adj 1: ostentatiously lofty in style; "a man given to large talk";
"tumid political prose" [syn: 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"
[syn: bloated, distended, puffed, puffy, swollen,
tumescent, turgid]
3: of sexual organs; stiff and rigid [syn: erect]