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plethoric

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ple·thor·ic  (pl-thôrk, -thr-, plth-rk)
adj.
1.
a. Excessive in quantity; superabundant: "this successful industry of England, with its plethoric wealth" Thomas Carlyle.
b. Excessive in style; turgid: plethoric prose.
2. Characterized by an overabundance of blood.

ple·thori·cal·ly adv.
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Adj.1.plethoric - excessively abundant
abundant - present in great quantity; "an abundant supply of water"


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The colonel was a stout, tall, plethoric German, evidently devoted to the service and patriotically Russian.
Like a plethoric burning martyr, or a self-consuming misanthrope, once ignited, the whale supplies his own fuel and burns by his own body.
The third party, which had ascended from the valley on the Italian side of the Pass, and had arrived first, were four in number: a plethoric, hungry, and silent German tutor in spectacles, on a tour with three young men, his pupils, all plethoric, hungry, and silent, and all in spectacles.
 
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