Intumescent (Adjective)
Meaning
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".
Classification
All adjective clusters.
Examples
- The tumescent nasal passages made it difficult for her to breathe.
- His fingers swelled into intumescent sausages after hours of exposure to the salty ocean.
- After eating the spoiled seafood, his intumescent belly ached with cramps.
- Her puffy face and intumescent eyelids made her look older than her age.
- The explorer's intumescent toes throbbed with pain as he trudged through the swamp.