Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive & transitive verb To become or cause to become tumescent.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb expand abnormally
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Back-formation from tumescent.]
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Examples
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Common wisdom, over the past seven years, has been that consumers would spend money to tumesce just two things on the internet – their wallet and their wanker.
Hey Murdoch, Take a lesson from the Smut Kings - Jim Louderback - MediaBizBloggers 2009
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Indeed, there are some women whose sex organs tumesce if they (the women) even touch a man -- any man -- and occasionally a case occurs where a woman will experience an orgasm if her clothing brushes against a man!
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As this part of the act continues, it is the most natural thing in the world that the sex organs should tumesce, and that there should be
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