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  • 1inflated — inflated, flatulent, tumid, turgid mean filled with something insubstantial (as air or vapor). Inflated implies expansion by the introduction of something (as a gas) lacking in substance to the point where the walls are stretched taut or tension… …

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  • 2swell — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. i. expand, dilate, bulge, protrude; billow; increase, grow, surge. See water, feeling, pride. n. swelling, increase; billow, wave, groundswell, sea, roller; rise, slope, knoll. See convexity,… …

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  • 3intumesce — /in too mes , tyoo /, v.i., intumesced, intumescing. 1. to swell up, as with heat; become tumid. 2. to bubble up. [1790 1800; < L intumescere to swell up, equiv. to in IN 2 + tumescere, equiv. to tum(ere) to swell + escere ESCE] * * * …

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  • 4intumesce — v. n. Swell, expand, dilate, become tumid …

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  • 5intumesce — v swell, tumefy, become tumid, Obs. incrassate; distend, inflate, bloat, puff out, blow up, bubble up, dome; protrude, bulge, bag, belly; fill out, fatten; expand, extend, spread, spread out, outspread, stretch, stretch out; enlarge, make larger …

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  • 6intumesce — /ɪntʃuˈmɛs/ (say inchooh mes) verb (i) (intumesced, intumescing) 1. to swell up, as with heat; become tumid. 2. to bubble up. {Latin intumescere swell up} …

  • 7in|tu|mesce — «IHN too MEHS, tyoo », intransitive verb, mesced, mesc|ing. to swell up; bubble up; become tumid, as with heat. ╂[&LT; Latin intumēscere &LT; in + tumēscere swell up &LT; tumēre to be swollen] …

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  • 8The Hollow Men — (1925) is a major poem by T. S. Eliot, a Nobel Prize winning modernist poet. Its themes are, like many of Eliot s poems, overlapping and fragmentary, but it is recognized to be concerned with: post War Europe under the Treaty of Versailles (which …

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  • 9Ulcer (dermatology) — Skin ulcer Classification and external resources Erythema nodosum Skin ulcers that occur in some patients suffering from Inflammatory bowel disease ICD 10 L …

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  • 10turgid — adjective 1) his turgid prose Syn: bombastic, pompous, overblown, inflated, tumid, high flown, puffed up, affected, pretentious, grandiose, florid, ornate, grandiloquent, orotund; informal highfalutin, purple Ant …

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