tumefy

Other forms of tumefy

past tense or participle

tumefied

present participle

tumefying·

third person

tumefies·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about tumefy

What does tumefy mean?

tumefy means "cause to become very swollen". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in tumefy?

tumefy has 3 syllables: tu-me-fy. The stress falls on "tu".

What is another word for tumefy?

Close synonyms include swell, swell up, intumesce, tumesce. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is tumefy a common word?

tumefy is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.