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tumefy

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Scrabble points
14
Words With Friends
15
Letters
6
Pronunciation
/ˈt(j)uːmɪfaɪ/

Definition of tumefy

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (transitive)To cause to swell.
    “to swell, tumefy, stiffen, not the diction only, but the tenor of the thought”
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verb

  1. (transitive)To cause to swell.
    “to swell, tumefy, stiffen, not the diction only, but the tenor of the thought”
  2. (intransitive)To swell; to rise into a tumour.
    “[…] Lanfrank takes Notice of Tract. 3. Doct. 3. cap. 18. ſaying, "I have ſeen many who being full of Humours, have made an Iſſue under the Knee, before due Purgation had been premis'd; whence, by reaſon of the too great Defluxion of Humours, the Legs tumified, ſo that the cauterized Place corrupted, and a Cancer (or rather cacoethic Ulcer) was thereby made, with which great Difficulty was cur'd."”

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Etymology

From French tuméfier, from Latin tumefaciō, ultimately from tumeō, from Proto-Indo-European *tum-éh₁- (“to be swelling”), stative stem of *tum- (“to swell”).

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