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Significats de tumid en anglès

Abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas.

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Ostentatiously lofty in style.

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Of sexual organs; stiff and rigid.

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Ús de tumid en anglès
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They, indeed, ridiculed his action as theatrical, and his style as tumid.
Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 1
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But confound this tumid, queasy feeling-thisrestlessness, swelling, and heat-itwas jealousy!
Jacob's Room
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I do not: I find them turgid and tumid no end.
A Cynic Looks at Life
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Thomson grows tumid wherever he assays the grandiosity of his model.
Among My Books. Second Series
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More tumid rain-clouds were approaching fast from the east, borne by the obdurate breeze.
The Reality Dysfunction
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The thing jumped into my mind and stopped its tumid flow for a moment.
In the Days of the Comet
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My nights are restless, my breath is difficult, and my lower parts continue tumid.
Life of Johnson, Volume 4 / 1780-1784
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The listener's face was tumid and discoloured, his eyes bloodshot.
The Whirlpool
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The tumid eyes of Claire Dujarrier resembled lighted coals.
His Excellency the Minister
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In endeavouring to disengage it, the animal bit him by the lip, which became instantly tumid.
An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales, Volume 1 / ...
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The three African eclogues have a tumid grandeur.
Lives of the English Poets / From Johnson to Kirke White, Design...
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Johnson has observed, that if blank verse be not tumid and gorgeous, it is crippled prose.
Lives of the English Poets / From Johnson to Kirke White, Design...
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Then, above that tumid silence, there came a nagging song like the song of a gnat.
Cat’s Cradle
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He had coarse features, a blunt nose, a convex and receding brow, tumid and protruded lips.
Dubliners
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Of these quotations the two first may be allowed to be great, the two latter only tumid.
Lives of the Poets, Volume 1
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The words he penned were tumid, meaningless.
Born in Exile
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