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- verb Present participle of
tumefy .
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Examples
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It is as if the little boy had been taught to believe that by never saying the word mumps, he could save his playmate from tumefying glands.
Nonsenseorship G. G. [Editor] Putnam 1915
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A tumefying condition undoubtedly marks the beginning of all catarrhal diseases.
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