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tumesce
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Verb tumesce has 1 sense
- tumesce(v = verb.change) intumesce, swell, swell up, tumefy - expand abnormally; "The bellies of the starving children are swelling" is one way to expand
Derived form adjective tumescent1
Sample sentence:
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