tumefy

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To cause to swell. transitive
    — to swell, tumefy, stiffen, not the diction only, but the tenor of the thought
  2. To swell; to rise into a tumour. intransitive
    — […] Lanfrank takes Notice of Tract. 3. Doct. 3. cap. 18. ſaying, "I have ſeen many who being full of Humours, have made an Iſſue under the Knee, before due Purgation had been premis'd; whence, by reaſon of the too great Defluxion of Humours, the Legs tumified, ſo that the cauterized Place corrupted, and a Cancer (or rather cacoethic Ulcer) was thereby made, with which great Difficulty was cur'd."

词形变化

tumefies present,singular,third-person tumefying participle,present tumefied participle,past tumefied past

词汇关系

衍生词
tumefaction

词源

From French tuméfier, from Latin tumefaciō, ultimately from tumeō, from Proto-Indo-European *tum-éh₁- (“to be swelling”), stative stem of *tum- (“to swell”).
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