OXFORD 9000
📚 adj • entry_id 13772

turgid

/ˈtɜː.d͡ʒɪd/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
turgente • túrgido
Distended beyond the natural state by some internal agent, especially fluid, or expansive force.
A vegetable that is fully moist and firm will seem both crisp and more tender than the same vegetable limp from water loss. When we bite down on a vegetable turgid with water, the…
I have a turgid limb.
ampuloso
Overly complex and difficult to understand; grandiloquent; bombastic.
Sounding rather suspiciously like Professor H. Bloom’s turgid studies of artistic influenza[…]
These were all basic tenets, but the principals wrote them down as if they had never heard them before—and maybe they hadn’t, or at least not for many years. Perhaps that’s why bur…
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