Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to tumefy
Participle: tumefied
Gerund: tumefying
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | tumefy |
| you | tumefy |
| he;she;it | tumefies |
| we | tumefy |
| you | tumefy |
| they | tumefy |
Perfect
| I | have tumefied |
| you | have tumefied |
| he;she;it | has tumefied |
| we | have tumefied |
| you | have tumefied |
| they | have tumefied |
Past
| I | tumefied |
| you | tumefied |
| he;she;it | tumefied |
| we | tumefied |
| you | tumefied |
| they | tumefied |
Pluperfect
| I | had tumefied |
| you | had tumefied |
| he;she;it | had tumefied |
| we | had tumefied |
| you | had tumefied |
| they | had tumefied |
Future
| I | will tumefy |
| you | will tumefy |
| he;she;it | will tumefy |
| we | will tumefy |
| you | will tumefy |
| they | will tumefy |
Future Perfect
| I | will have tumefied |
| you | will have tumefied |
| he;she;it | will have tumefied |
| we | will have tumefied |
| you | will have tumefied |
| they | will have tumefied |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | tumefy |
| you | tumefy |
| he;she;it | tumefy |
| we | tumefy |
| you | tumefy |
| they | tumefy |
Perfect
| I | have tumefied |
| you | have tumefied |
| he;she;it | have tumefied |
| we | have tumefied |
| you | have tumefied |
| they | have tumefied |
Imperfect
| I | tumefied |
| you | tumefied |
| he;she;it | tumefied |
| we | tumefied |
| you | tumefied |
| they | tumefied |
Pluperfect
| I | had tumefied |
| you | had tumefied |
| he;she;it | had tumefied |
| we | had tumefied |
| you | had tumefied |
| they | had tumefied |
Conditional
Present
| I | would tumefy |
| you | would tumefy |
| he;she;it | would tumefy |
| we | would tumefy |
| you | would tumefy |
| they | would tumefy |
Perfect
| I | would have tumefied |
| you | would have tumefied |
| he;she;it | would have tumefied |
| we | would have tumefied |
| you | would have tumefied |
| they | would have tumefied |
Imperative
| you | tumefy |
| we | Let's tumefy |
| you | tumefy |
Verbs conjugated like 'tumefy'
accompany,
acetify,
acidify,
adsignify,
affy,
alacrify,
alkalify,
ally,
amnesty,
amplify,
angelify,
anglicify,
anglify,
apology,
apply,
arefy,
argufy,
astony,
atrophy,
avowtry, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'tumefy'
humefy,
fumify,
humify,
rubefy,
stupefy,
tabefy,
tepefy,
arefy,
aurify,
calefy,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From French tuméfier, from Latin tumefaciō, ultimately from tumeō, from Proto-Indo-European *tum-éh₁- (“to be swelling”), stative stem of *tum- (“to swell”). See: French '
tuméfier', Latin '
tumefaciō'.
Sample Sentences
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to swell, tumefy, stiffen, not the diction only, but the tenor of the thought [1840, Thomas De Quincey, “Theory of Greek Tragedy”, in Blackwood's Magazine:]
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[…] 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 corrupted, and a Cancer (or rather cacoethic Ulcer) was thereby made, with which great Difficulty was cur'd." [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 against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleetstreet, →OCLC, page 254:]