turgid.
Distended beyond the natural state by some internal agent, especially fluid, or expansive force.
Meaning & usage
Distended beyond the natural state by some internal agent, especially fluid, or expansive force.
I have a turgid limb.
Of a river, inundated with excess water as from a flood; swollen.
Overly complex and difficult to understand; grandiloquent; bombastic.
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Latin turgeō Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der. Proto-Italic *-iðos Latin -idus Latin turgidusbor. English turgid From Latin turgidus (“swollen, inflated”), from turgeō (“to swell”).
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