| 单词 | tumid |
| 释义 | tumid (once / 35817 pages) adj To understand tumid, think about how your belly feels after Thanksgiving when you've just polished off that third helping of turkey with stuffing and Brussels sprouts. Gassy? Full? Distended? That's tumid for you. Tumid is also used by critics all over to describe their subjects (or rather "victims"). Any art form, particularly writing or acting, is ripe for description as tumid if it's overblown, bombastic and, well, gassy. Often used interchangeably with turgid in this sense. WORD FAMILYtumid: tumidest, tumidity, tumidly, tumidness USAGE EXAMPLESThe average mall moviegoer might be baffled or sedated by his films’ tumid, dreamlike melancholy. Time(Apr 03, 2015) The rigid edges of her wedding ring sliced into her tumid finger. Cristina García, Dreaming in Cuban(1992) Shell coniform, broad; aperture effuse, tumid callosity on the inner lip large, and spreading over the spire. Swainson, William, Zoological Illustrations, Volume I...(2012) 1adj abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas Syn intumescent, puffy, tumescent, turgid unhealthy not in or exhibiting good health in body or mind 2adj ostentatiously lofty in style tumid political prose Syn bombastic, declamatory, large, orotund, turgid rhetorical given to rhetoric, emphasizing style at the expense of thought 3adj of sexual organs; stiff and rigid Syn hard resisting weight or pressure |
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