tumescent

English

Etymology

From Latin tumēscēns (“swelling, bloating”)

Pronunciation

  • (US) IPA(key): /tuˈmɛsənt/, /tjuˈmɛsənt/
  • Rhymes: -ɛsənt

Adjective

tumescent (comparative more tumescent, superlative most tumescent)

  1. swollen or distended with fluid, as of erectile tissue.
  2. inflated or overblown
    • 1982, Arlene Croce, Going to the dance (page 395)
      I think that in Gloria MacMillan uses this tumescent language for a comparatively modest purpose — to show how it was between men and women in the war — and the language inflates and perverts his meaning unconscionably.

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Latin

Verb

tumēscent

  1. third-person plural future active indicative of tumēscō
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