Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To become turgid; swell; become inflated.
- Imp. Dict.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb rare To become turgid; to swell or be inflated.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb intransitive To become
turgid ; toswell orinflate .
Etymologies
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Latin turgescere, verb inchoate from turgere to swell.
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