tumescent
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (America) IPA: /tuˈmɛsənt/, /tjuˈmɛsənt/
tumescent
- Swollen or distended with fluid, as of erectile tissue.
- 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.
- 1982, Arlene Croce, Going to the dance (page 395)
- Portuguese: tumescente, intumescente
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