Word Meanings - TURGESCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To become turgid; to swell or be inflated.

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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.
• BECOME
  happen; akin to D. bekomen, OHG.a piquëman, Goth. biquiman to come 1. To pass from one state to another; to enter into some state or condition, by a change from another state, or by assuming or receiving new properties or qualities, additional
• SWELLTOAD
  A swellfish.
• TURGIDOUS
  Turgid. B. Jonson.
• BECOMED
  Proper; decorous. And gave him what becomed love I might. Shak.
• 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
• TURGID
  1. Distended beyond the natural state by some internal agent or expansive force; swelled; swollen; bloated; inflated; tumid; -- especially applied to an enlarged part of the body; as, a turgid limb; turgid fruit. A bladder . . . held near the fire
• 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.
• TURGIDITY
  The quality or state of being turgid.
• UPSWELL
  To swell or rise up.
• UNBECOME
  To misbecome. Bp. Sherlock.
• 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.
• MISBECOME
  Not to become; to suit ill; not to befit or be adapted to. Macaulay. Thy father will not act what misbecomes him. Addison.
• DISBECOME
  To misbecome. Massinger.
• HIGH-SWELLING
  Inflated; boastful.