tumescent
adj/tuˈmɛsənt/US
Etymology
From Latin tumēscēns (“swelling, bloating”).
Definitions
Swollen or distended with fluid, as of erectile tissue.
Inflated or overblown.
- 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.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for tumescent. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
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