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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Capable of swelling or becoming turgescent.

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  • Meanwhile the Queen on that fateful night, though avowing her lack of all appetite, was still at table, where, rumor said, she was smearing her seventh slice of bread (thus each turgescible rumor thrives at court) with gold from the royal hives.

    Figures of Earth James Branch Cabell 1918

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