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tumescent

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9 lettersPronunciation /tuˈmɛsənt/Part of speech adjectiveSorted ceemnsttuStarts with TEnds with T0 clues
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Definitions

  1. abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas

Word origin

From Latin tumēscēns (“swelling, bloating”).

Used in a sentence

  • 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.

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