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Meanings of tumid in English
Synonyms
Examples for "erect"
Examples for "erect"
1
The scales smooth; praeanal pores none; pupil elliptical, erect; hinder limbs short.
2
Nat held himself rigidly erect; he was doing without his cane today.
3
The horizontal position favors the retention of semen; the erect its expulsion.
4
Countries now have better reason to erect gates around their financial systems.
5
Keep the thumb erect; raise the first finger of the left hand.
Usage of tumid in English
1
They, indeed, ridiculed his action as theatrical, and his style as tumid.
2
But confound this tumid, queasy feeling-thisrestlessness, swelling, and heat-itwas jealousy!
3
I do not: I find them turgid and tumid no end.
4
Thomson grows tumid wherever he assays the grandiosity of his model.
5
More tumid rain-clouds were approaching fast from the east, borne by the obdurate breeze.
6
The thing jumped into my mind and stopped its tumid flow for a moment.
7
My nights are restless, my breath is difficult, and my lower parts continue tumid.
8
The listener's face was tumid and discoloured, his eyes bloodshot.
9
The tumid eyes of Claire Dujarrier resembled lighted coals.
10
In endeavouring to disengage it, the animal bit him by the lip, which became instantly tumid.
11
The three African eclogues have a tumid grandeur.
12
Johnson has observed, that if blank verse be not tumid and gorgeous, it is crippled prose.
13
Then, above that tumid silence, there came a nagging song like the song of a gnat.
14
He had coarse features, a blunt nose, a convex and receding brow, tumid and protruded lips.
15
Of these quotations the two first may be allowed to be great, the two latter only tumid.
16
The words he penned were tumid, meaningless.
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Tumid through the time