Crossword-Solution: TURGENT
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Turgent | a. | Rising into a tumor, or a puffy state; swelling; tumid; as, turgent humors. |
| Turgent | a. | Inflated; bombastic; turgid; pompous. |
We have 1 clue for the answer “TURGENT”
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| Pompous: Rare. | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
A moving of the mind or soul; excitement of the feelings,
whether pleasing or painful; disturbance or agitation of mind caused by
a specific exciting cause and manifested by some sensible effect on the
body.
Hint 2 anagram
NTOMOEI
Hint 3 another clue
A FEELING OF GREAT ELATION
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Sentences with TURGENT (4)
Cum ruit imbriferum ver: Spicea jam campis cum messis inhorruit, et cum Frumenta in viridi stipula lactentia turgent.
But we had considerably more than a capful of wind, and there was a turgent ground-swell on, which made our boat—double-engined, and as trim and tidy a craft as ever sped across the span from shore to shore—behave rather lively, with sportive indulgence in a brisk game of pitch-and-toss that proved anything but comfortable to most of the passengers.
What has swelled and rendered turgent and muddy those sweet and gently-flowing streams of peace and brotherly love, on the banks of which, the early settlers of this country used to sit for days undisturbed, singing praises and hallelujahs to Jehovah, who delivered them, in his great mercy, from lands of bondage, tyranny, and idolatry.
The turgent sand-bags and the worn-out gabions, alternately wet from violent rains and dry from the charring heat of the sun, burst and broke up at every blow.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1964).