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单词 tumid
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Definition of tumid in English:

tumid

adjective ˈtjuːmɪdˈt(j)uməd
  • 1(especially of a part of the body) swollen.

    (尤指身体某部分)肿胀的

    a tumid belly

    肿胀的腹部。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The rights to a future project currently sit in the directors tumid billfold.
    • Plate surfaces more commonly exhibit a prominent tumid center.
    • The jungle is dense, tumid, and bejeweled with parrots.
    • It has a tumid rounded shape.
    • What was he doing easing my friend up across his tumid belly and onto his lap?
    Synonyms
    expanded, distended, bulging, inflamed, inflated, enlarged, dilated, bloated, blown-up, puffed up, puffy, ballooning, protruding, prominent, stretched, tumescent
    swollen, distended, tumescent, engorged, tumefied, enlarged, bloated, bulging, protuberant, bulbous
  • 2(especially of language or literary style) pompous or bombastic.

    〈喻〉(尤指语言、文体)浮华的,浮夸的

    tumid oratory

    辞藻华丽的演讲。

    Synonyms
    bombastic, pompous, turgid, overblown, overripe, inflated, high-flown, affected, pretentious, grandiose, florid, flowery, ornate, magniloquent, grandiloquent, rhetorical, oratorical, orotund

Derivatives

  • tumidity

  • noun tjuːˈmɪdɪtit(j)uˈmɪdədi
    • There is often slight guarding and generalised tumidity of the abdomen similar to the ‘doughiness’ of tuberculous peritonitis.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The tumidity is, in fact, rather pronounced relative to the size of the shell.
      • The orchestra added little apart from a certain unwelcome tumidity to music that would have been more at home as a Hollywood soundtrack.
      • Varicose veins usually result in tumidity, atony and pains in the legs as well as eczema and ulcers, causing great trouble to the patients.
      • The diction has in places a huge and rugged grandeur, which degenerates here and there into tumidity.
  • tumidly

  • adverb

Origin

Mid 16th century: from Latin tumidus, from tumere 'to swell'.

Rhymes

humid

Definition of tumid in US English:

tumid

adjectiveˈt(j)umədˈt(y)o͞oməd
  • 1(especially of a part of the body) swollen.

    (尤指身体某部分)肿胀的

    a tumid belly

    肿胀的腹部。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • It has a tumid rounded shape.
    • What was he doing easing my friend up across his tumid belly and onto his lap?
    • The rights to a future project currently sit in the directors tumid billfold.
    • The jungle is dense, tumid, and bejeweled with parrots.
    • Plate surfaces more commonly exhibit a prominent tumid center.
    Synonyms
    expanded, distended, bulging, inflamed, inflated, enlarged, dilated, bloated, blown-up, puffed up, puffy, ballooning, protruding, prominent, stretched, tumescent
    swollen, distended, tumescent, engorged, tumefied, enlarged, bloated, bulging, protuberant, bulbous
  • 2(especially of language or literary style) pompous or bombastic.

    〈喻〉(尤指语言、文体)浮华的,浮夸的

    tumid oratory

    辞藻华丽的演讲。

    Synonyms
    bombastic, pompous, turgid, overblown, overripe, inflated, high-flown, affected, pretentious, grandiose, florid, flowery, ornate, magniloquent, grandiloquent, rhetorical, oratorical, orotund

Origin

Mid 16th century: from Latin tumidus, from tumere ‘to swell’.

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