angeschwollen — meaning in English

English meaning

• swollen adj Enlarged or puffed up beyond the normal size, usually from injury, illness, or fluid buildup.
• turgid adj Distended beyond the natural state by some internal agent, especially fluid, or expansive force.

Senses

angeschwollen is used for these senses in English:

• swollen protuberant or abnormally distended (as by injury or disease).
• turgid Distended beyond the natural state by some internal agent, especially fluid, or expansive force.

turgid — full definition

1. adj Distended beyond the natural state by some internal agent, especially fluid, or expansive force.
2. adj Of a river, inundated with excess water as from a flood; swollen.
3. adj Overly complex and difficult to understand; grandiloquent; bombastic.

Related German words