Usually means: Swollen or distended with fluid.
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General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. turgescent: Merriam-Webster
  2. turgescent: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. turgescent: Collins English Dictionary
  4. turgescent: Wordnik
  5. turgescent: Wiktionary
  6. turgescent: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. turgescent: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  8. turgescent: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. turgescent: Dictionary.com
  10. Turgescent: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. turgescent: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. Turgescent: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. turgescent: FreeDictionary.org
  14. turgescent: TheFreeDictionary.com
  15. Turgescent: World Wide Words

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  1. turgescent: Legal dictionary

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. turgescent: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. turgescent: Medical dictionary

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▸ adjective:  Becoming turgid or swollen.

Similar:
tumescent, subturgid, tumored, tumoured, rigescent, torpescent, fulvescent, bulbous, tortulous, rufescent, more...

Opposite:
flaccid, limp, wilted, droopy



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Similar:
tumescent, subturgid, tumored, tumoured, rigescent, torpescent, fulvescent, bulbous, tortulous, rufescent, more...

Opposite:
flaccid, limp, wilted, droopy



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