turgesce

English

Etymology

Latin turgescere, verb inchoate from turgere (“to swell”).

Verb

turgesce (third-person singular simple present turgesces, present participle turgescing, simple past and past participle turgesced)

  1. (intransitive) To become turgid; to swell or inflate.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “turgesce”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Latin

Verb

turgēsce

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of turgēscō
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