(verb) : turgĕo, rsi, gēre, cf. Gr. σπαργάω, to swell; σφριγάω, to be full; perh. Sanscr. root ūrgā, succulence; Gr. ὀργάω, to swell, etc.
* To swell out, be swollen or tumid (mostly poet.; not in Cic.; cf. tumeo).
* Lit.: si lienes turgent,Cato, R. R. 157, 7: Cyclopis venter turserat alte, Enn. ap. Prisc. p. 870 P. (Ann. v. 326 Vahl.): ora (ab ictu),Ov. F. 3, 757: lumina gemitu,Prop. 1, 21, 3: mammae,Plin. 20, 13, 51, § 141: rana,Prop. 3, 6 (4, 5), 27: laeto in palmite gemmae,Verg. E. 7, 48: frumenta,id. G. 1, 315: herba,Ov. M. 15, 203: caules,Plin. 12, 17, 37, § 73: uva mero,Mart. 13, 68, 2: sacculus pleno ore,Juv. 14, 138.
* Trop.
* In gen.: turgent mendacia nimiis monstris,i. e. are full,Claud. in Eutr. 1, 350: (uxor) turget mihi,i. e. is swelling with anger, is enraged,Plaut. Cas. 2, 5, 17; so id. Most. 3, 2, 10.
* Of speech, to be inflated, turgid, bombastic: oratio, quae turget et inflata est,Auct. Her. 4, 10, 45: professus grandia turget,Hor. A. P. 27.