Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: turgid
IPA transcription: [t'ɝdʒɪd]
adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: puffy, intumescent, tumescent, tumid, turgid
    Meaning: abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas; "hungry children with bloated stomachs"; "he had a grossly distended stomach"; "eyes with puffed (or puffy) lids"; "swollen hands"; "tumescent tissue"; "puffy tumid flesh"
  • Synonyms: bombastic, declamatory, large, orotund, tumid, turgid
    Meaning: ostentatiously lofty in style; "a man given to large talk"; "tumid political prose"
Usage examples
  • Gabriel was already among the turgid, prostrate forms.
  • He saw the whole ghastly business, the police on the canal banks, watching the slow progress of the men with their drags bringing to the surface all the miserable refuse of the turgid waters, the dripping black mud, perhaps at last....
  • The thought burned before him like a live thing; and in the light of it he saw many pictures--heliographs of happenings in and about the laboratories: flame, smoke dense and turgid, splintered wood, metal hurtling through air, bleeding hands, lacerated breasts, sightless eyes.