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tumidly Definition


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tumid
adj
    1. Said of an organ or body part: swollen, enlarged or bulging, especially abnormally so.
      Thesaurus: swollen, bulging, tumescent, distended, bloated, enlarged, inflated.
    2. Said of writing, speech, etc: bombastic; inflated.
      Thesaurus: pompous, bombastic, egotistic, inflated, bloated.
Derivative: tumidity
noun
    Derivative: tumidly
    adverb
      Etymology: 16c: from Latin tumidus, from tumere to swell.



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