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verb

Distend v. t. (past & past part. distended; pres. part. distending)

To extend in some one direction; to lengthen out; to stretch. (R.) "But say, what mean those colored streaks in heaven Distended as the brow of God appeased?"

To stretch out or extend in all directions; to dilate; to enlarge, as by elasticity of parts; to inflate so as to produce tension; to cause to swell; as, to distend a bladder, the stomach, etc. "The warmth distends the chinks."

Synonyms: To dilate; expand; enlarge; swell; inflate.

Distend v. i. To become expanded or inflated; to swell. "His heart distends with pride."

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Etymology of 'Distend'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... to all other food is, that abounding with few or no salts, being soft and cool, and consisting of parts that are easily divided and formed into chyle without giving any labor to the digestive powers, it has not that force to open the lacteals, to distend their orifices and excite them to an unnatural activity, to let them pass too great a quantity of hot and rank chyle into the blood, and so overcharge and inflame the lymphatics and capillaries, which is ...

— Vegetable Diet: As Sanctioned by Medical Men, and by Experience in All Ages • William Andrus Alcott

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— English-Esperanto Dictionary • John Charles O'Connor and Charles Frederic Hayes

... are rolling heavy, Fitful gusts distend his sail; See the whirlpool's foaming eddy, ...

— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, No. 579 - Volume 20, No. 579, December 8, 1832 • Various

... one case, which I saw, a considerable quantity of calcareous earth, and afterwards of bone-ashes, and of decoction of madder, and also of sublimate of mercury, were given without effect. All the bones became soft, many of them broke, and the patient seemed to die from the want of being able to distend her chest owing to the ...

— Zoonomia, Vol. II - Or, the Laws of Organic Life • Erasmus Darwin

... not decline to take her whither she desired to go. Gently swaying the blade, he sent the boat within the dark opening, which appeared to distend its jaws to swallow the canoe and them from the world to ...

— The Land of Mystery • Edward S. Ellis

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