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Adjective: turgid  tur-jid
  1. Ostentatiously lofty in style
    "a man given to turgid talk"
    - bombastic, declamatory, large, orotund, tumid
     
  2. Abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas
    "eyes with puffed (or turgid) lids"
    - puffy, intumescent, tumescent, tumid

See also: rhetorical, turgidness, unhealthy

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