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Textual thesaurus for "turgid"

(adj) puffy, tumescent, tumid, intumescent

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


(adj) tumid, bombastic, declamatory, large, orotund

ostentatiously lofty in style

a man given to large talk; tumid political prose