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TURGID

Definition:

[adjective] ostentatiously lofty in style; "a man given to large talk"; "tumid political prose"
Synonyms: bombastic, declamatory, large, orotund, tumid
[adjective] 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"
Synonyms: bloated, distended, puffed, puffy, swollen, tumescent, tumid