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turgid leeches having had their fill of blood
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Miller and Hardy (the dream team of Olivia Colman and David Tennant) are still working together three years after the turgid events of Season 2.
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There's a drumbeat now, sending tingles up and down Democratic legs — and Republican Never-Trumper legs — and other sensations through America's turgid Twitter thumbs.
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Brahms, for me, represents the final, richest expression of the romantic in music (as opposed to the turgid neuroticism of Wagner and some of Mahler).
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Origin and Etymology of turgid
Latin turgidus, from turgēre to be swollen
turgid Synonyms
Synonyms
blown, distended, overinflated, puffed, swollen, tumescent, tumid, bloated, varicose (also varicosed)Related Words
ballooned, blown up, expanded; bulging, dilated, protuberant; ventricose; ballooning, dilating, turgescentNear Antonyms
collapsed, deflated, detumescentTURGID Defined for English Language Learners
turgid
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adjective
Definition of turgid for English Language Learners
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: very complicated and difficult to understand
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: larger or fuller than normal because of swelling
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