tumescent

形容词 adj.
中文释义
美 /tuˈmɛsənt/|/tjuˈmɛsənt/

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Swollen or distended with fluid, as of erectile tissue.
  2. Inflated or overblown.
    — I think that in Gloria MacMillan uses this tumescent language for a comparatively modest purpose — to show how it was between men and women in the war — and the language inflates and perverts his meaning unconscionably.

词形变化

more tumescent comparative most tumescent superlative

词汇关系

近义词
tumid turgescent turgid
衍生词
detumescent nontumescent tumescently
相关词
contumely tumor tumult

词源

From Latin tumēscēns (“swelling, bloating”).
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