tumefy

Verb

tumefy (third-person singular simple present tumefies, present participle tumefying, simple past and past participle tumefied)

1. (transitive) To cause to swell.
   • to swell, tumefy, stiffen, not the diction only, but the tenor of the thought1840, Thomas De Quincey, “Theory of Greek Tragedy”, in Blackwood's Magazine
2. (intransitive) To swell; to rise into a tumour.
   • […] 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...1732, George Smith, Institutiones Chirurgicæ: or, Principles of Surgery, … To which is Annexed, a Chirurgical Dispensatory, …, London: Printed [by William Bowyer] for Henry Lintot, at the Cross-Keys...