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Adjective: turgid  tur-jid
  1. Ostentatiously lofty in style
    "a man given to turgid talk";
    - bombastic, declamatory, large, orotund, tumid
     
  2. Abnormally expanded, esp. by fluids or gas
    "eyes with puffed (or turgid) lids";
    - puffy, intumescent, tumescent, tumid, distended, bloated, swollen

See also: rhetorical, unhealthy

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