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tumescent: ► definition

Definition:

Slightly tumid; swollen, as certain moss capsules.

Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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1. swollen or distended with fluid, as of erectile tissue.
2. inflated or overblown

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The fat! The miles of stretch marks! The tumescent horribleness of his proportions!

Junot Díaz. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2007)

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she has in front well to the fore two protuberances of very respectable dimensions, inclined to fall in the noonday soupplate, while on her rere lower down are two additional protuberances, suggestive of potent rectum and tumescent for palpation, which leave nothing to be desired save compactness.

James Joyce. Ulysses

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the sly tumescent devil,

Vladimir Nabokov. Lolita