turgid

IPA(Pronunciation)

/ˈtɜː.d͡ʒɪd/

Adjective

of language or style

Distended beyond the natural state by some internal agent, especially fluid, or expansive force. / (of language or style) Overly complex and difficult to understand; grandiloquent; bombastic.

Japanese Meaning

自然な状態を超えて内部の圧力や液体などによって膨張した状態 / 言語や文体が過度に複雑で装飾的なため、理解が困難な様子

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After the spring thaw, the turgid river overflowed its banks and flooded the low-lying fields.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

春の雪解けの後、増水した川が堤防を越えて低地の畑を洪水にした。

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Sense（1）

Distended beyond the natural state by some internal agent, especially fluid, or expansive force.

I have a turgid limb.

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Sense（2）

(of language or style) Overly complex and difficult to understand; grandiloquent; bombastic.

These were all basic tenets, but the principals wrote them down as if they had never heard them before—and maybe they hadn’t, or at least not for many years. Perhaps that’s why bureaucratic prose becomes so turgid, whatever the bureaucracy.

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more turgid

（ comparative ）

most turgid

（ superlative ）

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