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  • verb Present participle of detumesce.

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Examples

  • His body was frozen through, its only sensation coming from his now detumescing, burning erection and from his uncontrollable shaking, but instead of staggering toward the ship after the girl, he moved forward to where she had knelt in the moonlight.

    The Terror Simmons, Dan 2007

  • Wherever the domiciles of the boy's paramours, the fact remains that at that rate his penis must have been erecting, ejaculating, and detumescing faster than the wingbeats of a hummingbird.

    MetaFilter 2009

  • A dark-skinned man, big and nude and detumescing, gripping a knife and fork, unnaturally still, sitting opposite a khepri, her slight woman's body in shadow, her chitinous head in silhouette.

    elzr 2008

  • A dark-skinned man, big and nude and detumescing, gripping a knife and fork, unnaturally still, sitting opposite a khepri, her slight woman's body in shadow, her chitinous head in silhouette.

    elzr 2008

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