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tumefacient

[ too-muh-fey-shuhnt, tyoo- ]

adjective

  1. tumefying; causing to swell.


tumefacient

/ ˌːɪˈڱɪʃɪəԳ /

adjective

  1. producing or capable of producing swelling

    a tumefacient drug

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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of tumefacient1

1880–85; < Latin tumefacient-, stem of ٳܳڲŧԲ (present participle of tumefacere “to cause to swell”). See tumefy, -facient ( def )
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of tumefacient1

C16: from Latin tumefacere to cause to swell, from ٳܳŧ to swell + facere to cause
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Antonyms: subsidence, detumescence. swelling, a. turgent, tumefacient, tumid, turgid; grandiloquent, bombastic, grandiose. swerve, v. deviate, deflect, diverge, turn aside. swift, a. fleet, rapid, fast, speedy, quick. swiftness, n. celerity, velocity, speed, rapidity, fleetness, quickness. swill, n. hogwash, swillings, draff. swimming, n. natation; dizziness, vertigo, giddiness; transnatation, supernatation.

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Fat and featureless, pink and pincushiony, it was borrowed by gushing maidenhood, exchanged by idiotic maternity, and had grown unctuous and tumefacient under the kisses and embraces of half the hotel.

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