begin to swell
Latin word, found 35 times in the texts on Socratos.
Vergil, Georgics 1.357: incipiunt agitata tumescere et aridus altis
Ovid, Amores 3.11a.30: Lenta tumescentes aequoris audit aquas.
Ovid, Heroides 8.57: Rumpor, et ora mihi pariter cum mente tumescunt,
All forms of tumesco