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Distend

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To extend or expand, as from internal pressure; to swell intransitive

    "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."

  2. 2
    swell from or as if from internal pressure wordnet
  3. 3
    To extend; to stretch out; to spread out. archaic, reflexive, transitive

    "These impure and frail matters are conteined within the angust concave of the Lunar Orb, above which with uninterrupted Series the things Celestial distend themselves."

  4. 4
    cause to expand as if by internal pressure wordnet
  5. 5
    To cause to swell. transitive
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  1. 6
    become wider wordnet
  2. 7
    To cause gravidity.

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin distendō.

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