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turgid
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synonyms: tumescent, grandiloquent, hauteur, orotund, fustian, magniloquent, tympany ???
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Definition:1. Distended beyond the natural state by some internal agent or expansive force; swelled; swollen; bloated; inflated; tumid; -- especially applied to an enlarged part of the body; as, a turgid limb; turgid fruit.2. Swelling in style or language; vainly ostentatious; bombastic; pompous; as, a turgid style of speaking.Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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A bladder . . . held near the fire grew turgid.
Boyle.
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A great Consumption of the Stock of Liquors, that in Health kept the Vessels turgid; Which Vessels I suppose to make up those Muscles.
The Royal Society. Philosophical Transactions: Giving Some Accompt of the Present Undertakings, Studies,and Labours of the Ingenious in Many Considerable Parts of the World, volume I (1666)
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The water was turgid, like milk coffee, and deeper than I'd thought,
Sue Monk Kidd. The Mermaid Chair, p.218 (2005)
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he did not discourse, but harangue; and his orations were equally tedious and turgid.
Tobias Smollett. The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (1771)
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The none too savory ramifications by which Ella Kaye, the newspaper woman, played Madame de Maintenon to his weakness and sent him to sea in a yacht, were common knowledge to the turgid sub-journalism of 1902.
Francis Scott Fitzgerald. The Great Gatsby
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witchsmeller: My Lord, this turgid, horrid, nasty and most evil case draws to an end.
BBC. Blackadder, season 1: Witchsmeller Pursuivant
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