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tumesce

v. expand abnormally; "The bellies of the starving children are swelling" [syn: swell, swell up, intumesce, tumefy]

Usage examples of "tumesce".

She wraps a large rubber pouch full of mildly anaesthetic lube around his tumescing genitals—no point in letting him climax—clips electrodes to his nipples, lubes a rubber plug up his rectum and straps it in place.

Their starkly uptilted boughs, still bereft of their tumescing burdens, looked like black avenues of hafts as the sun fell through them.