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Definition of Tumefy
1. Verb. Cause to become very swollen.
2. Verb. Expand abnormally. "Did his feet tumefy?"; "The bellies of the starving children are swelling"
Specialized synonyms: Distend, Belly, Belly Out, Blow Up, Puff, Puff Out, Puff Up, Bloat, Blister, Vesicate
Generic synonyms: Expand
Derivative terms: Intumescence, Intumescency, Swelling, Tumefaction, Tumescent
Definition of Tumefy
1. v. t. To swell; to cause to swell, or puff up.
2. v. i. To rise in a tumor; to swell.
Definition of Tumefy
1. Verb. to cause to swell ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Tumefy
1. to swell [v -FIED, -FYING, -FIES] - See also: swell
Medical Definition of Tumefy
1. To swell or to cause to swell. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tumefy
Literary usage of Tumefy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Philosophy of osteopathy by Andrew Taylor Still (1899)
"... Omnipresent — Connection .with Spinal Cord — Goes With and Covers All
Muscles—Proofs in Contagion- Study of Nerves and Fascia—tumefy—Tumefaction. ..."
2. An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1893)
"-f- Dan. tumle, Swed. turnia, to tumble, toss about. The F. tomber is of Teut.
origin. ß. It will be observed that, contrary tumefy, to cause to swell, ..."