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English
Etymology
From Latin tumēscēns (“swelling, bloating”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
tumescent (comparative more tumescent, superlative most tumescent)
- Swollen or distended with fluid, as of erectile tissue.
- Inflated or overblown.
1982, Arlene Croce, Going to the Dance, page 395: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.
Synonyms
Translations
swollen or distended with fluid
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French
Adjective
tumescent (feminine tumescente, masculine plural tumescents, feminine plural tumescentes)
- tumescent
Further reading
Latin
Verb
tumēscent
- third-person plural future active indicative of tumēscō
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French tumescent.
Adjective
tumescent m or n (feminine singular tumescentă, masculine plural tumescenți, feminine and neuter plural tumescente)
- tumescent
Declension