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Definition 2024

tumescent ‎(comparative more tumescent, superlative most tumescent)

swollen or distended with fluid, as of erectile tissue.
inflated or overblown
- 1982, Arlene Croce, Going to the dance (page 395)
  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.

swollen or distended with fluid

inflated or overblown

tumēscent