Dilated

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Having been widened; expanded.
  • adj. Distended.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. Simple past tense and past participle of dilate.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Expanded; enlarged.
  • adj. Widening into a lamina or into lateral winglike appendages.
  • adj. Having the margin wide and spreading.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Expanded; extended; enlarged.
  • Word Usage
    "The heart with noncompaction can be dilated with decreased pumping function as in dilated cardiomyopathy (see above) or can have normal pumping function."
    Cross Reference
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    expanded    enlarged   
    Verb Stem
    dilate   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    awaited    created    demodulated    dictated    elated    hated    inflated    negated    plaited    plated