meaning of turgite

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.
2.
Swelling in style or language; vainly ostentatious; bombastic; pompous; as, a turgid style of speaking.
3.
abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas; "hungry children with bloated stomachs"; "he had a grossly distended stomach"; "eyes with puffed or puffy lids"; "swollen hands"; "tumescent tissue"; "puffy tumid ">flesh"


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