turgid

Definition

Distended beyond the natural state by some internal agent, especially fluid, or expansive force.

Etymology

From Latin turgidus (“swollen, inflated”), from turgeō (“to swell”).

Example Sentences

• "I have a turgid limb."
• "A vegetable that is fully moist and firm will seem both crisp and more tender than the same vegetable limp from water loss. When we bite down on a vegetable turgid with water, the already-stressed cell walls readily break and the cells burst open; in a limp vegetable, chewing compresses the walls together, and we have to exert much more pressure to break through them."
• "The Jiet River lay before them, as thick and turgid as a gorged snake, its crosshatched surface reflecting the same ghastly hue that pervaded the Burning Plains."