distend
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distend (third-person singular simple present distends, present participle distending, simple past and past participle distended)
- (intransitive) To extend or expand, as from internal pressure; to swell
- 1835, William Gilmore Simms, The Partisan, Harper, Chapter XIV, page 180:
- Then came the arrowy flight and form of the hurricane itself—its actual bulk—its imbodied power, pressing along through the forest in a gyratory progress, not fifty yards wide, never distending in width, yet capriciously winding from right to left and left to right.
- 1835, William Gilmore Simms, The Partisan, Harper, Chapter XIV, page 180:
- (transitive, reflexive, archaic) To extend; to stretch out; to spread out.
- (transitive) To cause to swell.
- (biology) To cause gravidity.
Translations [edit]
To extend or expand
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- Oxford English Dictionary, Second Edition, 1989
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distend
- third-person singular present indicative of distendre