Meaning

3 senses

  1. (intransitive)To leave the erect, sexually aroused state.

  2. (intransitive)To lose one's sexual arousal: to experience the detumescence of one's sexual organs.

  3. (transitive)To cause (a person) to detumesce: to induce detumescence.

Origin

From de- + tumesce.

From de- + tumesce.

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Forms

detumesces, detumescing, detumesced, detumesced
Base formdetumesce · to detumesce
3rd person singulardetumesces
Present participledetumescing
Past simpledetumesced
Past participledetumesced

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theydetumesce
he, she, itdetumesces

Past simpleLesson

all personsdetumesced

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave detumesced
he, she, ithas detumesced

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill detumesce

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
detrimentC1detrimentalC1deucedevaluationdevaluedevastateB1
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