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The once tranquil stream had transformed into a turgid, raging river after the storm, carrying debris and uprooted trees in its current.turgid = swollen
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The patient’s leg was turgid and painful to the touch, a clear sign of an infection.
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The author’s writing was turgid and difficult to follow, with long, convoluted sentences and obscure vocabulary.turgid = overly complicated
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After the heavy rain, the river became turgid and overflowed its banks, flooding the nearby fields.turgid = swollen
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Mesmerized by London's turgid portrayal of life in Alaska and the Yukon, McCandless read and reread "The Call of the Wild", "White Fang", "To Build a Fire", "An Odyssey of the North", "The Wit of Porportuk." (source)turgid = overly dramatic or inflated
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Scenting disaster from afar as is her habit, Myra arrived, bearing half-a-dozen turgid cupcakes left over from some family starch-fest. (source)turgid = swollen (large, perhaps overflowing a cupcake liner they were baked in)
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A few miles away, on the riverbank beyond Les Invalides, the bewildered driver of a twin-bed Trailor truck stood at gunpoint and watched as the captain of the Judicial Police let out a guttural roar of rage and heaved a bar of soap out into the turgid waters of the Seine. (source)turgid = swollen
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Like a kind of summer molasses, it poured turgidly forth upon the cinnamon-dusty road.† (source)
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Its universality: its democratic equality and constancy to its nature in seeking its own level: its vastness in the ocean of Mercator's projection: its unplumbed profundity in the Sundam trench of the Pacific exceeding 8000 fathoms: the restlessness of its waves and surface particles visiting in turn all points of its seaboard: the independence of its units: the variability of states of sea: its hydrostatic quiescence in calm: its hydrokinetic turgidity in neap and spring tides: its subsidence after devastation: its sterility in the circumpolar icecaps, arctic and antarctic: its climatic and commercial significance: its preponderance of 3 to 1 over the dry land of the globe: its indisputable† (source)
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Kassad felt the bloodlust build in him with turgid strength. (source)turgid = swollen or increased
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But as before the lightning the serried stormclouds, heavy with preponderant excess of moisture, in swollen masses turgidly distended, compass earth and sky in one vast slumber, impending above parched field and drowsy oxen and blighted growth of shrub and verdure till in an instant a flash rives their centres and with the reverberation of the thunder the cloudburst pours its torrent, so and not otherwise was the transformation, violent and instantaneous, upon the utterance of the word.† (source)
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The wolves had gone into the turgid brown water alone. (source)turgid = swollen, thick or murky
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The women were presumed to have been ravished, the men robbed, their corpses plunged into the turgid waters of the Chicago River or the alleys of Halsted and the Levee and that hard stretch of Clark between Polk and Taylor known to veteran officers as Cheyenne. (source)turgid = thick, murky, and possibly polluted
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And the prose in the memoranda of other officers was always turgid, stilted, or ambiguous. (source)turgid = overblown and self-important
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I can understand why you'd want to quit this madhouse—but to be the head of Sweden's most turgid old-boy newspaper? (source)
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The none too savory ramifications by which Ella Kaye, the newspaper woman, played Madame de Maintenon to his weakness and sent him to sea in a yacht, were common knowledge to the turgid sub-journalism of 1902. (source)
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