"tumefy" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

IPA: /ˈt(j)uːmɪfaɪ/ Forms: tumefies [present, singular, third-person], tumefying [participle, present], tumefied [participle, past], tumefied [past]
Etymology: From French tuméfier, from Latin tumefaciō, ultimately from tumeō, from Proto-Indo-European *tum-éh₁- (“to be swelling”), stative stem of *tum- (“to swell”). Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*tewh₂-}}, {{der|en|fr|tuméfier}} French tuméfier, {{der|en|la|tumefaciō}} Latin tumefaciō, {{m|la|tumeō}} tumeō, {{der|en|ine-pro|*tum-éh₁-||to be swelling}} Proto-Indo-European *tum-éh₁- (“to be swelling”), {{m|ine-pro|*tum-||to swell}} *tum- (“to swell”) Head templates: {{en-verb}} tumefy (third-person singular simple present tumefies, present participle tumefying, simple past and past participle tumefied)
  1. (transitive) To cause to swell. Tags: transitive Translations (to cause to swell): отичам (otičam) (Bulgarian), ŝveligi (Esperanto), tuméfier (French), προκαλώ (prokaló) (Greek), tumefaciō (Latin)
    Sense id: en-tumefy-en-verb-xgQaLEJz Disambiguation of 'to cause to swell': 94 6
  2. (intransitive) To swell; to rise into a tumour. Tags: intransitive
    Sense id: en-tumefy-en-verb-G7OGdn4M Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 20 80 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 18 82
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: tumefaction

Inflected forms

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