Crossword-Solution: TURGID
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Turgid | a. | Distended beyond the natural state by some internal agent or expansive force; swelled; swollen; bloated; inflated; tumid; -- especially applied to an enlarged part of the body; as, a turgid limb; turgid fruit. |
| Turgid | a. | Swelling in style or language; vainly ostentatious; bombastic; pompous; as, a turgid style of speaking. |
We have 17 clues for the answer “TURGID”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Tediously pompous | 1 answer |
| Overly ornate writing | 2 answers |
| COMBINING FORMS SWOLLEN | 10 answers |
| BEET LACKING SWOLLEN ROOT | 10 answers |
| Overblown | 20 answers |
| overformal | 28 answers |
| Bloated | 29 answers |
| stilted | 30 answers |
| distended | 35 answers |
| grandiloquent | 55 answers |
| Exaggerated | 59 answers |
| swollen | 67 answers |
| Bombastic | 72 answers |
| Pretentious | 77 answers |
| Unnatural | 77 answers |
| Pompous ___ | 80 answers |
| Stiff | 90 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TAERE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with TURGID (5)
Distended beyond the natural or usual size, as by the presence of water, serum, etc.; turgid; swollen; as, a bloated face.
His little turgid life dwindled to its true proportions; and he saw himself (that great flame-hearted martyr!) stand like a speck under the cool cupola of the night.
From the ramparts of Fort Chartres (once one of the mighty chain of strongholds to protect a new France, and now deserted like Massacre), I gazed for the first time in awe at the turgid flood of the Mississippi, and at the lands of the Spanish king beyond.
Erskine, subsequently Earl of Mar, testifies, in its turgid, turbulent phrases, to a perfect passion of alarmed self-respect and vanity.
They were good men and bore me no malice, and they served me up to the public in turgid degenerate Kiplingese, as a modest button on the complacent stomach of the Empire.
Quotes with TURGID (3)
I regret that I didn’t realize that actually they’ve got no power over you at school — it’s all just a trick to indoctrinate you into being a conditioned, tame, placid citizen. Rebel, children, I urge you, fight the turgid slick of conformity with which they seek to smother your glory.
Rebel children, I urge you, fight the turgid slick of conformity with which they seek to smother your glory.
I aim at being useful, and sincerity will render me unaffected; for, wishing rather to persuade by the force of my arguments, than dazzle by the elegance of my language, I shall not waste my time in rounding periods, nor in fabricating the turgid bombast of artificial feelings, which, coming from the head, never reach the heart. — I shall be employed about things, not words!
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, NYT, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 6 times in crossword archives (1993–2025).