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Distend   /dɪstˈɛnd/   Listen
Distend

verb
(past & past part. distended; pres. part. distending)
1.
Become wider.  Synonym: dilate.
2.
Cause to expand as it by internal pressure.
3.
Swell from or as if from internal pressure.





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"Distend" Quotes from Famous Books



... 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


Words linked to "Distend" :   tumesce, distensible, swell up, widen, dilate, swell, distension, bloat, tumefy, intumesce, distention


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