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Verb: tumefy  't(y)oo-mu`fI
  1. Cause to become very swollen
     
  2. Expand abnormally
    "The bellies of the starving children are tumefying"
    - swell, swell up, intumesce, tumesce

Derived forms: tumefied, tumefying, tumefies

See also: tumefaction

Type of: expand, swell

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