tumescent

From Latin tumēscēns (“swelling, bloating”).

• (US) IPA^(key): /tuˈmɛsənt/, /tjuˈmɛsənt/

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• Rhymes: -ɛsənt

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.

• tumid
• turgescent
• turgid

tumescent (feminine tumescente, masculine plural tumescents, feminine plural tumescentes)

1. tumescent

• “tumescent”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

tumēscent

1. third-person plural future active indicative of tumēscō

Borrowed from French tumescent.

tumescent m or n (feminine singular tumescentă, masculine plural tumescenți, feminine and neuter plural tumescente)

1. tumescent