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Etymology

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Latin turgens, turgentis, present participle of turgere (to swell).

Adjective

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turgent (comparative more turgent, superlative most turgent)

  1. Rising into a tumour or a puffy state; tumid.
  2. Bombastic; turgid; pompous.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for turgent”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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Verb

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turgent

  1. third-person plural present active indicative of turgeō