tumefacient

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

adjective

1. tumefying; causing to swell.

tumefacient

/ ˌtjuːmɪˈfeɪʃɪənt /

adjective

1. producing or capable of producing swelling

   a tumefacient drug

Word History and Origins

Origin of tumefacient¹

1880–85; < Latin tumefacient-, stem of tumefaciēns (present participle of tumefacere “to cause to swell”). See tumefy, -facient ( def. )

Word History and Origins

Origin of tumefacient¹

C16: from Latin tumefacere to cause to swell, from tumēre to swell + facere to cause

Example Sentences

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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