Tumid - English meaning

adjective

Influenced or touched by an external factor.

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Affected areas

verb

Have an effect on; make a difference to.

Usage examples:

The dampness began to affect my health

verb

Pretend to have or feel (something).

Usage examples:

As usual i affected a supreme unconcern

adjective

Swollen with fluid or gas.

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He had a bloated, unshaven face

verb

Make or become swollen with fluid or gas.

Usage examples:

The fungus has bloated their abdomens

verb

Cure (a herring) by salting and smoking it lightly.

adjective

High-sounding but with little meaning; inflated.

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Bombastic rhetoric

adjective

Fat, round, or bulging.

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A bulbous nose

adjective

Swelling outwards; protruding.

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He stared with bulging eyes

verb

Swell or protrude to an incongruous extent.

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The veins in his neck bulged

adjective

Swollen due to pressure from inside; bloated.

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A distended belly

verb

Swell or cause to swell by pressure from inside.

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The abdomen distended rapidly

adjective

Swollen and large in a way that is not normal, especially because of pressure from inside

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The television showed images of starving children with distended bellies., his abdomen had become v…

adjective

Affected with or characteristic of dropsy; oedematous.

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Enormous dropsical ankles

verb

Cause to swell with blood, water, or another fluid.

Usage examples:

The river was engorged by a day-long deluge

adjective

If a part of the body is engorged, it has become swollen or filled with a liquid, especially blood.

adjective

Having become or been made larger.

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An enlarged spleen

verb

Make or become larger or more extensive.

Usage examples:

They have renovated and enlarged the four-storey building

adjective

Having a red or flushed complexion.

Usage examples:

A stout man with a florid face

adjective

Too red, esp. in a way that is unhealthy

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A florid complexion, a florid architectural style, florid prose/speech

adjective

Covered with flowers or having a floral design.

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A flowery meadow

adjective

Covered with pictures of flowers

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A flowery blouse

adjective

Pompous or extravagant in language, style, or manner, especially in a way that is intended to impress.

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A grandiloquent celebration of spanish glory

adjective

A grandiloquent style or way of using language is complicated in order to attract admiration and attention, especially in order to make someone or something seem important

Usage examples:

Her speech was full of grandiloquent language, but it contained no new ideas.

adjective

Impressive and imposing in appearance or style, especially pretentiously so.

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The court's grandiose facade

adjective

Very large or wonderful, or intended to seem great and important

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Grandiose buildings, grandiose plans

adjective

High-flown language, ideas, or behaviour is meant to make you admire someone.

adjective

Distended through being filled with air or gas.

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A partially inflated balloon

verb

Fill (a balloon, tyre, or other expandable structure) with air or gas so that it becomes distended.

Usage examples:

Never use an air line on a garage forecourt to inflate your tyres

adjective

An inflated price or value is higher than it should be or than is reasonable

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Evidence suggests that travellers have been put off by the inflated prices., grossly/highly/vastly …

adjective

Done with great effort and difficulty.

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His breathing was laboured

verb

Work hard; make great effort.

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They laboured from dawn to dusk

adjective

Needing a lot of effort, often because someone is tired

Usage examples:

Her breathing was heavy and laboured., a laboured joke

adjective

Using high-flown or bombastic language.

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I had no idea ‘if you will ‘was supposed to be a magniloquent term in the 2000s, according to flemi…

adjective

A magniloquent style or way of using language is complicated, especially in order to make someone or something seem intelligent or important.

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The reporters ridiculed her magniloquent speeches., good writing is never very good if it is magnil…

adjective

A magniloquent style or way of using language is complicated, especially in order to make someone or something seem intelligent or important.

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The reporters ridiculed her magniloquent speeches., good writing is never very good if it is magnil…

adjective

Relating to the art or practice of public speaking.

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Oratorical skills

adjective

Connected with skilful and effective public speaking

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Oratorical skill, she has a wonderful oratorical style, with a splendid command of english.

adjective

Elaborately or highly decorated.

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An ornate wrought-iron railing

adjective

Having a lot of decoration

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Ornate jewelry/buildings

adjective

(of a person's voice) resonant and imposing.

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Watson's orotund voice is complemented by swooning strings, lush orchestration and gloriously cheer…

adjective

Made to seem more impressive or important than is the case; exaggerated or pretentious.

Usage examples:

His most rhetorically overblown screenplay

adjective

Made to seem more important or bigger than what is really true

Usage examples:

As for the wage gap, davis says it's overblown.

adjective

Too ripe; past its best.

Usage examples:

Overripe tomatoes

adjective

Too ripe and starting to decay

adjective

Affectedly grand, solemn, or self-important.

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A pompous ass who pretends he knows everything

adjective

Feeling or showing that you think you are better or more important than other people

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I regarded him as somewhat pompous and opinionated., the pomposity of new york society

adjective

Attempting to impress by affecting greater importance or merit than is actually possessed.

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Pretentious art films

adjective

Trying to give the appearance of great importance, esp. in a way that is obvious

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Pretentious restaurants, pretentious, silly poetry

adjective

Protruding; bulging.

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His protuberant eyes fluttered open

adjective

Sticking out

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He stared at me with blue, slightly protuberant eyes.

adjective

(especially of part of the body) unusually swollen.

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Her eyes were puffy and full of tears

adjective

Relating to or concerned with the art of rhetoric.

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Repetition is a common rhetorical device

adjective

Rhetorical speech or writing is intended to seem important or influence people

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Repetition, that tedious rhetorical device

adjective

Showing signs of nervous tension or tiredness.

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Jean's pale, strained face

verb

Force (a part of one's body or oneself) to make an unusually great effort.

Usage examples:

I stopped and listened, straining my ears for any sound

adjective

Nervous, worried, or having problems

Usage examples:

She had a strained expression on her face., a strained knee

verb

(especially of a part of the body) become larger or rounder in size, typically as a result of an accumulation of fluid.

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Her bruised knee was already swelling up

noun

A full or gently rounded shape or form.

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The soft swell of her breast

noun

A gradual increase in amount, intensity, or volume.

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A huge swell in the popularity of one-day cricket

verb

Become swollen.

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The tumefied face, the swollen and blackened eyes and lips

adjective

Swollen or becoming swollen, especially as a response to sexual arousal.

adjective

Swollen or becoming swollen, especially because of sexual excitement

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A tumescent penis

adjective

Becoming or seeming swollen or distended.

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The cells are highly vacuolized, turgescent, and present a ‘chordal’ appearance

adjective

Swollen and distended or congested.

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A turgid and fast-moving river

adjective

(of speech or writing) too serious and very boring

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Turgid prose, turgid rain clouds

adjective

Having a large or protruding stomach.

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A ventricose old lady