turgid

Betekenis (Engels)

  1. Distended beyond the natural state by some internal agent, especially fluid, or expansive force.
  2. Of a river, inundated with excess water as from a flood; swollen.
  3. Overly complex and difficult to understand; grandiloquent; bombastic.

Uitgespreek as (IPA)
/ˈtɜː.d͡ʒɪd/
Etimologie (Engels)

From Latin turgidus (“swollen, inflated”), from turgeō (“to swell”).

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