Associations to the word «Turgid»

Wiktionary

TURGID, adjective. Distended beyond the natural state by some internal agent, especially fluid, or expansive force.
TURGID, adjective. (of language or style) Overly complex and difficult to understand; grandiloquent; bombastic.

Dictionary definition

TURGID, adjective. Ostentatiously lofty in style; "a man given to large talk"; "tumid political prose".
TURGID, adjective. 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".

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne