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  • 51turgid — adjective 1) his turgid prose Syn: bombastic, pompous, overblown, inflated, tumid, high flown, puffed up, affected, pretentious, grandiose, florid, ornate, grandiloquent, orotund; informal highfalutin, purple Ant …

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  • 52tumefy — [c]/ˈtjuməfaɪ / (say tyoohmuhfuy) verb (tumefied, tumefying) –verb (t) 1. to make swollen or tumid. –verb (i) 2. to become swollen or tumid. {Latin tumefacere} …

  • 53tumour — [16] Tumour is one of a small family of English words that go back ultimately to Latin tumēre ‘swell’. Others include contumacy, contumely, tumid ‘swollen’ [16], and tumult [15]. Cf.⇒ CONTUMACY, CONTUMELY, THIGH, THUMB, TUMID, TUMULT …

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  • 54bombastic — adjective ostentatiously lofty in style a man given to large talk tumid political prose • Syn: ↑declamatory, ↑large, ↑orotund, ↑tumid, ↑turgid • Similar to: ↑ …

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  • 55declamatory — adjective ostentatiously lofty in style a man given to large talk tumid political prose • Syn: ↑bombastic, ↑large, ↑orotund, ↑tumid, ↑turgid • Similar to: ↑ …

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  • 56tumidity — noun slight swelling of an organ or part • Syn: ↑tumidness • Derivationally related forms: ↑tumid (for: ↑tumidness), ↑tumid • Hypernyms: ↑swelling, ↑ …

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  • 57tumidness — noun slight swelling of an organ or part • Syn: ↑tumidity • Derivationally related forms: ↑tumid, ↑tumid (for: ↑tumidity) • Hypernyms: ↑swelling, ↑ …

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  • 58Benign tumor — Tumor Tu mor, n. [L., fr. tumere to swell: cf. F. tume[ u]r. See {Tumid}.] 1. (Med.) A morbid swelling, prominence, or growth, on any part of the body; especially, a growth produced by deposition of new tissue; a neoplasm. [1913 Webster] 2.… …

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  • 59Bigly — Big ly, adv. [From {Big}, a.] In a tumid, swelling, blustering manner; haughtily; violently. [1913 Webster] He brawleth bigly. Robynson (More s Utopia. ) [1913 Webster] …

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  • 60Bombastic — Bom*bas tic (b[o^]m*b[.a]s t[i^]k or b[u^]m*b[.a]s t[i^]k), Bombastical Bom*bas tic*al, a. Characterized by bombast; high sounding; inflated. {Bom*bas tic*al*ly}, adv. [1913 Webster] A theatrical, bombastic, windy phraseology. Burke. [1913… …

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