"tumefy" meaning in English

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        "(transitive) To cause to swell."
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          "sense": "to cause to swell",
          "word": "отичам"
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          "sense": "to cause to swell",
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          "word": "προκαλώ"
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          "sense": "to cause to swell",
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          "text": "[…] Lanfrank takes Notice of Tract. 3. Doct. 3. cap. 18. ſaying, \"I have ſeen many who being full of Humours, have made an Iſſue under the Knee, before due Purgation had been premis'd; whence, by reaſon of the too great Defluxion of Humours, the Legs tumified, ſo that the cauterized Place corrupted, and a Cancer (or rather cacoethic Ulcer) was thereby made, with which great Difficulty was cur'd.\"",
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        "To swell; to rise into a tumour."
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        "(intransitive) To swell; to rise into a tumour."
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        "(transitive) To cause to swell."
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      "roman": "otičam",
      "sense": "to cause to swell",
      "word": "отичам"
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      "sense": "to cause to swell",
      "word": "ŝveligi"
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      "sense": "to cause to swell",
      "word": "tuméfier"
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      "roman": "prokaló",
      "sense": "to cause to swell",
      "word": "προκαλώ"
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      "sense": "to cause to swell",
      "word": "tumefaciō"
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