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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (1)

1. abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas;
- Example: "hungry children with bloated stomachs"
- Example: "he had a grossly distended stomach"
- Example: "eyes with puffed (or puffy) lids"
- Example: "swollen hands"
- Example: "tumescent tissue"
- Example: "puffy tumid flesh"
[syn: puffy, intumescent, tumescent, tumid, turgid]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Intumescent \In`tu*mes"cent\, a. [L. intumescens, p. pr.]
   Swelling up; expanding.
   [1913 Webster]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

intumescent
    adj 1: 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"
           [syn: puffy, intumescent, tumescent, tumid,
           turgid]