Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Producing or tending to produce swelling or tumefaction.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Swelling; swollen.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Producing swelling; tumefying.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Latin tumefaciēns, tumefacient-, present participle of tumefacere, to tumefy : tumēre, to swell; see teuə- in Indo-European roots + facere, to make; see dhē- in Indo-European roots.]
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Examples
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Fat and featureless, pink and pincushiony, it was borrowed by gushing maidenhood, exchanged by idiotic maternity, and had grown unctuous and tumefacient under the kisses and embraces of half the hotel.
By Shore and Sedge Bret Harte 1869
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