turgid

adjective3

1. •
   Distended beyond the natural state by some internal agent, especially fluid, or expansive force.

   • I have a turgid limb.
2. •
   Overly complex and difficult to understand; grandiloquent; bombastic.

   • Sounding rather suspiciously like Professor H. Bloom’s turgid studies of artistic influenza[…] — 1996
3. •
   Of a river, inundated with excess water as from a flood; swollen.

   • The Jiet River lay before them, as thick and turgid as a gorged snake, its crosshatched surface reflecting the same ghastly hue that pervaded the Burning Plains. — 2005