tumescent

tumescent
tumescence, n.
/tooh mes"euhnt, tyooh-/, adj.
1. swelling; slightly tumid.
2. exhibiting or affected with many ideas or emotions; teeming.
3. pompous and pretentious, esp. in the use of language; bombastic.
[1880-85; < L tumescent- (s. of tumescens, prp. of tumescere to begin to swell), equiv. to tum(ere) to swell + -escent- -ESCENT]

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