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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

TU'MEFY, v.t. [L. tumefacio; tumidus, tumeo, and facio.]
To swell, or cause to swell.
TU'MEFY, v.i. To swell; to rise in a tumor.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: cause to become very swollen
2: expand abnormally; "The bellies of the starving children are swelling" [syn: swell, swell up, intumesce, tumefy, tumesce]

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v. (-ies, -ied) 1 intr. swell, inflate; be inflated. 2 tr. cause to do this. Derivatives: tumefacient adj. tumefaction n. Etymology: F tuméfier f. L tumefacere f. tumere swell

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Tumefy Tu"me*fy, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tumefied; p. pr. & vb. n. Tumefying.] [F. tum['e]fier, fr. L. tumere to swell + -ficare (in comp.) to make; cf. L. tumefacere to tumefy. See Tumid, and -fy.] To swell; to cause to swell, or puff up. To swell, tumefy, stiffen, not the diction only, but the tenor of the thought. --De Quincey.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Tumefy Tu"me*fy, v. i. To rise in a tumor; to swell.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

I. v. a. Swell, inflate, distend, puff up, enlarge. II. v. n. Swell, puff up.