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n; bloated; inflated; tumid; -- especially applied to an enlarged part of the body; as, a turgid limb; turgid fruit. A bladder . . . held near the fire grew turgid. Boyle.

The quality or state of being turgid.

Turgid. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

To make turgid, as with water or air; to cause a swelling of the surface of, from effusion of serum in the cellular tissue, producing a morbid enlargement, often accompanied with softness.

Distended beyond the natural or usual size, as by the presence of water, serum, etc.; turgid; swollen; as, a bloated face. Also, puffed up with pride; pompous.

Red and inflamed; suffused with blood, or having the vessels turgid with blood, as when the conjunctiva is inflamed or irritated. His eyes were bloodshot, . . . and his hair disheveled. Dickens.

A small fish of the Atlantic coast (Tetrodon turgidus); the puffer.

Swollen; turgid; as, a blubbered lip. Spenser.

Turgid with flatus; as, a flatulent tumor. Quincy.

Characterized by affectation of grandeur or splendor; flaunting; turgid; bombastic; -- in a bad sense; as, a grandiose style.

Turgid; extravagant; bombastic; inflated; as, high-flown language. M. Arnold.

Turgid; swelling; puffed up; bombastic; pompous; as, an inflated style. Inflated and astrut with self-conceit. Cowper.

To be turgid, bombastic, or extravagant; as, swelling words; a swelling style.

Swelling in sound or sense; pompous; puffy; inflated; bombastic; falsely sublime; turgid; as, a tumid expression; a tumid style. -- Tu"mid*ly, adv. -- Tu"mid*ness, n.

Inflated; bombastic; turgid; pompous. Recompensed with turgent titles. Burton.

To become turgid; to swell or be inflated. [R.]

Empty magnificence or pompousness; inflation; bombast; turgidity. Johnson.

Becoming turgid or inflated; swelling; growing big.

Hence, inflation; conceit; bombast; turgidness. "Thine 's a tympany of sense." Dryden. A plethoric a tautologic tympany of sentence. De Quincey.