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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