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   tumescent

   /tjuːˈmɛsnt/

   adjective

   • 1. swollen or becoming swollen, especially as a response to sexual arousal.
   • 2. (especially of language or literary style) pompous or pretentious: "his prose is tumescent, full of orotund language"

   Word Origin mid 19th century: from Latin tumescent- ‘beginning to swell’, from the verb tumescere, from tumere ‘to swell’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. tumescence noun
   • 2. tumescently adverb

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