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Word Meanings - TUMOROUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Swelling; protuberant. Sir H. Wotton. 2. Inflated; bombastic. B. Jonson.

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  • INFLATE
    Blown in; inflated. Chaucer.
  • INFLATED
    Hollow and distended, as a perianth, corolla, nectary, or pericarp. Martyn. 4. Distended or enlarged fictitiously; as, inflated prices, etc. (more info) 1. Filled, as with air or gas; blown up; distended; as, a balloon inflated with gas. 2. Turgid;
  • INFLATER
    One who, or that which, inflates; as, the inflaters of the stock exchange.
  • SWELLTOAD
    A swellfish.
  • PROTUBERANT
    Prominent, or excessively prominent; bulging beyond the surrounding or adjacent surface; swelling; as, a protuberant joint; a protuberant eye. -- Pro*tu"ber*ant*ly, adv.
  • INFLATINGLY
    In a manner tending to inflate.
  • SWELL
    1. To grow larger; to dilate or extend the exterior surface or dimensions, by matter added within, or by expansion of the inclosed substance; as, the legs swell in dropsy; a bruised part swells; a bladder swells by inflation. 2. To increase in
  • SWELLDOM
    People of rank and fashion; the class of swells, collectively.
  • INFLATIONIST
    One who favors an increased or very large issue of paper money.
  • SWELLING
    an unnatural prominence or protuberance; as, a scrofulous swelling. The superficies of such plates are not even, but have many cavities and swellings. Sir I. Newton. (more info) 1. The act of that which swells; as, the swelling of rivers in spring;
  • INFLATABLE
    That may be inflated.
  • INFLATUS
    A blowing or breathing into; inflation; inspiration. The divine breath that blows the nostrils out To ineffable inflatus. Mrs. Browning.
  • SWELLISH
    Dandified; stylish.
  • INFLATION
    1. The act or process of inflating, or the state of being inflated, as with air or gas; distention; expansion; enlargement. Boyle. 2. The state of being puffed up, as with pride; conceit; vanity. B. Jonson. 3. Undue expansion or increase, from
  • SWELLFISH
    Any plectognath fish that dilates itself, as the bur fish, puffer, or diodon.
  • BOMBASTIC; BOMBASTICAL
    Characterized by bombast; highsounding; inflated. -- Bom*bas"tic*al*ly, adv. A theatrical, bombastic, windy phraseology. Burke. Syn. -- Turgid; tumid; pompous; grandiloquent.
  • UPSWELL
    To swell or rise up.
  • UNSWELL
    To sink from a swollen state; to subside. Chaucer.
  • HEARTSWELLING
    Rankling in, or swelling, the heart. "Heartswelling hate." Spenser.
  • BOSWELLISM
    The style of Boswell.
  • HIGH-SWELLING
    Inflated; boastful.
  • OUTSWELL
    1. To exceed in swelling. 2. To swell beyond; to overflow. Hewyt.

 

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