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distend

English

  1. 🔊 swell from or as if from internal pressure
    “The distended bellies of the starving cows”
  2. 🔊 cause to expand as it by internal pressure
    “The gas distended the animal's body”
  3. 🔊 become wider
    “His pupils were dilated”

Similar words

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