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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
aureate, bellied, bloated, blown up, bombastic, bug-eyed, bulged, dilated, distended, dropsical, edematous, enchymatous, euphuistic, exophthalmic, expanded, fat, flatulent, flowery, formal, fustian, gassy, goggle, goggled, grandiloquent, incrassate, inflated, magniloquent, mouthy, overblown, plethoric, pompous, pontifical, popeyed, pouched, puffed up, puffy, pursy, self-important, solemn, stilted, stuffy, swelled, swelling, swollen, tumescent, tumorous, turgescent, turgid, ventose, ventricose, windy
Dictionary Results for tumid:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
tumid
    adj 1: ostentatiously lofty in style; "a man given to large
           talk"; "tumid political prose" [syn: bombastic,
           declamatory, large, orotund, tumid, turgid]
    2: abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas; "hungry
       children with bloated stomachs"; "he had a grossly distended
       stomach"; "eyes with puffed (or puffy) lids"; "swollen
       hands"; "tumescent tissue"; "puffy tumid flesh" [syn:
       puffy, intumescent, tumescent, tumid, turgid]
    3: of sexual organs; stiff and rigid [syn: tumid, erect]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Tumid \Tu"mid\, a. [L. tumidus, fr. tumere to swell; cf. Skr.
   tumra strong, fat. Cf. Thumb.]
   1. Swelled, enlarged, or distended; as, a tumid leg; tumid
      flesh.
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   2. Rising above the level; protuberant.
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            So high as heaved the tumid hills.    --Milton.
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   3. Swelling in sound or sense; pompous; puffy; inflated;
      bombastic; falsely sublime; turgid; as, a tumid
      expression; a tumid style.
      [1913 Webster] -- Tu"mid*ly, adv. -- Tu"mid*ness, n.
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