How to pronounce“tumescent”in English
IPA/tuˈmɛsənt/
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adjective
Swollen or distended with fluid, as of erectile tissue.
adjective
Inflated or overblown.
“I think that in Gloria MacMillan uses this tumescent language for a comparatively modest purpose — to show how it was between men and women in the war — and the language inflates and perverts his meaning unconscionably.”
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