英语词汇“tumescent”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组、英语词典-本地帮

单词

tumescent

释义

tumescent, a.|tjuːˈmɛsənt|
[f. L. tumēscent-em, pr. pple. of tumēscĕre to begin to swell, become tumid, inceptive of tumēre to swell.]
Becoming tumid, swelling; somewhat tumid; also fig.
1882Adamson in Mind Apr. 281 The style is of a vapid and somewhat tumescent character.1899Allbutt's Syst. Med. VIII. 479 Heat..will make the lesions red and tumescent.1899Baring-Gould Bk. of West v, Tumescent undergarments.

Add: Hence tuˈmescently adv.
1983P. Devlin All of us There xii. 147 Those famous Bad Thoughts..tumescently haunted many an Irish life.1988New Yorker 29 Feb. 71/1 At five-to-seven-minute intervals, the young geyser swells tumescently, lets forth a series of heavy grunts, and into the sky shoots a plume of flying steam.

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