distend
About 0.12 uses per million words.
Meaning
- verb To extend or expand, as from internal pressure; to swell
- verb To extend; to stretch out; to spread out.
- verb To cause to swell.
- verb To cause gravidity.
Similar words
swell swell up dilate expand decontract unstretch open out widen bestrut dispand
Often followed by
the and it with their to them in his
Word family
distended distending distends
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