Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • transitive & intransitive verb To swell or cause to swell.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To swell, or cause to swell or be tumid.
  • To swell; become tumid.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • intransitive verb To rise in a tumor; to swell.
  • transitive verb To swell; to cause to swell, or puff up.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb to cause to swell

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb expand abnormally
  • verb cause to become very swollen

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[French tuméfier, Latin tumefacere; see tumefaction.]

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