turgescence

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Roget 194: expansion; increase of size etc. 35; enlargement, extension, augmentation; amplification, ampliation^†; aggrandizement, spread, increment, growth, development, pullulation, swell, dilation, rarefaction; turgescence^†, turgidness, turgidity; dispansion^†; obesity etc. (size) 192; hydrocephalus, hydrophthalmus [Med.]; dropsy, tumefaction, intumescence, swelling, tumor, diastole, distension; puffing, puffiness; inflation; pandiculation^†.    dilatability, expansibility.    germination, growth, upgrowth^†; accretion etc. 35; budding, gemmation^†.    overgrowth, overdistension^†; hypertrophy, tympany^†.    bulb etc. (convexity) 250; plumper; superiority of size.    [expansion of the universe] big bang; Hubble constant.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 577: ornament; floridness c^†.    adj.. turgidity, turgescence^†; altiloquence etc. adj.^†; declamation, teratology^†; well-rounded periods; elegance etc. 578; orotundity.    inversion, antithesis, alliteration, paronomasia; figurativeness etc. (metaphor) 521.    flourish; flowers of speech, flowers of rhetoric; frills of style, euphuism^†, euphemism.    big-sounding words, high-sounding words; macrology^†, sesquipedalia verba [Lat.], Alexandrine; inflation, pretension; rant, bombast, fustian, prose run mad; fine writing; sesquipedality^†; Minerva press.    phrasemonger; euphuist^†, euphemist.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 641: redundancy, redundance^†; too much, too many; superabundance, superfluity, superfluence^†, saturation; nimiety^†, transcendency, exuberance, profuseness; profusion etc. (plenty) 639; repletion, enough in all conscience, satis superque [Lat.], lion's share; more than enough etc. 639; plethora, engorgement, congestion, load, surfeit, sickener^†; turgescence etc. (expansion) 194^†; overdose, overmeasure^†, oversupply, overflow; inundation etc. (water) 348; avalanche.    accumulation etc. (store) 636; heap etc. 72; drug, drug in the market; glut; crowd; burden.    excess; surplus, overplus^†; epact^†; margin; remainder etc. 40; duplicate; surplusage^†, expletive; work of supererogation; bonus, bonanza.    luxury; intemperance etc. 954; extravagance etc. (prodigality) 818; exorbitance, lavishment^†.    pleonasm etc. (diffuseness) 573; too many irons in the fire; embarras de richesses [Fr.].    ... meer laten zien

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