tumid
Example Sentences
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“I found her unfamiliar, rouged like a corpse, her tumid ankles peeking out, inflated and purple,” Rowbottom writes.
From New York Times • Jul. 18, 2018
The average mall moviegoer might be baffled or sedated by his films’ tumid, dreamlike melancholy.
From Time • Apr. 3, 2015
In Gaudi's hands, art nouveau took on a tumid, visceral energy that no other European architect could manage.
From Time Magazine Archive
Written in that vein, Love and Death in the American Novel is a tumid, quasi-psychoanalytic study in which Critic Fiedler tries to strip American literature down to a heavily annotated fig leaf.
From Time Magazine Archive
Every night I was sure her face was as marked and deformed as it was possible for a face to be, but every morning it was somehow darker, more tumid.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
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The Suffix -id, Part 4
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