Usually means: Swollen or becoming engorged, typically.
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  1. tumescent: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. tumescent: Merriam-Webster
  3. tumescent: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. tumescent: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. tumescent: Collins English Dictionary
  6. tumescent: Vocabulary.com
  7. tumescent: Wordnik
  8. tumescent: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. tumescent: Wiktionary
  10. tumescent: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. tumescent: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. tumescent: Dictionary.com
  13. tumescent: Rhymezone
  14. tumescent: FreeDictionary.org
  15. tumescent: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  16. tumescent: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. tumescent: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. tumescent: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. tumescent: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Tumescent: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
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  4. tumescent: Medical dictionary
  5. Tumescent: Drug Medical Dictionary

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  1. tumescent: Wordcraft Dictionary

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adjective:  Swollen or distended with fluid, as of erectile tissue.
adjective:  Inflated or overblown.

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