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Meaning of turgid

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  turgid
      adj 1: ostentatiously lofty in style; "a man given to large
             talk"; "tumid political prose" [syn: {bombastic},
             {declamatory}, {large}, {orotund}, {tumid}, {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:
         {puffy}, {intumescent}, {tumescent}, {tumid}, {turgid}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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