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English
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtjuːmɪd/, /ˈtuːmɪd/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -uːmɪd
Adjective
tumid (comparative more tumid, superlative most tumid)
- Swollen, enlarged, bulging.
- Cancerous, unhealthy.
- Pompous, bombastic.
- 1837, Thomas Carlyle, chapter III, in The French Revolution: A History […], volume II (The Constitution), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, book I (The Feast of Pikes), page 19:
- Tumid blustering, with more or less of sincerity, which need not be entirely sincere, yet the sincerer the better, is like to go far.
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tumid
Romanian
Etymology
Adjective
tumid m or n (feminine singular tumidă, masculine plural tumizi, feminine and neuter plural tumide)
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