Turgid - Definition

turgid

adj 1: ostentatiously lofty in style; "a man given to large
talk"; "tumid political prose" [syn: bombastic,
declamatory, large, orotund, tumid, turgid]
2: 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" [syn:
puffy, intumescent, tumescent, tumid, turgid]

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