Adjective has 1 sense

• intumescent(s = adj.all) puffy, tumescent, tumid, turgid - abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas; "eyes with puffed (or puffy) lids"; "he had a grossly distended stomach"; "hungry children with bloated stomachs"; "puffy tumid flesh"; "swollen hands"; "tumescent tissue"

Derived form noun intumescence₁, noun intumescency₁