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Significats de turgid en anglès

Abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas.

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Ostentatiously lofty in style.

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Ús de turgid en anglès
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There is nothing turgid in his dignity, nor superfluous in his copiousness.
The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes, Volume 03 / ...
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But into the turgid down-sweep he headed with a newly conjured vigor.
The Furnace of Gold
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Their turgid rhetoric and exaggerated pretence did not seem natural to him.
Military Reminiscences of the Civil War, Volume 1: April 1861-No...
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There was no sign of the puppy on the turgid grey surface.
Drood: a novel
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The sea is dark and death-like, the air clammy, turgid, and steamy.
My Tropic Isle
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His style, at first simple and direct, became turgid, involved, and obscure.
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Vol...
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It is a peaceful end to a turgid career.... Oh, well hit!
The Loom of Youth
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It struck his face; his screaming mouth was filled with turgid jelly.
Hell House
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The approach, however, is generally academic and the presentation rather turgid.
The Irish Times
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Most think LG is a turgid, snobbish affair, but they're missing the point.
The Guardian
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You will return to that turgid place from which you came.
Tomato rhapsody: a fable of love, lust and forbidden fruit
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Her thoughts seemed to coil as turgid as the water itself.
Blood and Bone
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The thing stru us at the time as turgid, unwieldy bit of dialectic.
The new yorker
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Far down in the shadows she discerned the river, yellow, turgid, palely gleaming.
The Call of the Canyon
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The turgid stream was not wide and it was not a long fight.
Ruth Fielding of the Red Mill; Or, Jasper Parloe's Secret
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Her turgid opinions would have more merit in such a look.
Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America
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