Usually means: Swollen or distended, often verbose.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. turgid: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. turgid: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. turgid: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. turgid: Collins English Dictionary
  5. turgid: Vocabulary.com
  6. Turgid, turgid: Wordnik
  7. turgid: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. turgid: Wiktionary
  9. turgid: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. turgid: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. turgid: Dictionary.com
  12. turgid: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. turgid: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Turgid: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. turgid: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. turgid: Rhymezone
  17. turgid: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. turgid: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. turgid: Free Dictionary
  20. turgid: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  21. turgid: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. turgid: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  23. turgid: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. turgid: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.

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  1. turgid: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. turgid: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. turgid: Medical dictionary

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  2. Bryological (No longer online)
  3. Flora of New South Wales (No longer online)
  4. Turgid: The Orchid Lady's Illustrated Orchid Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. turgid: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Distended beyond the natural state by some internal agent, especially fluid, or expansive force.
adjective:  Of a river, inundated with excess water as from a flood; swollen.
adjective:  (of language or style) Overly complex and difficult to understand; grandiloquent; bombastic.

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