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verb-intransitive. To swell out or expand from or as if from internal pressure.

v. To cause to expand by or as if by internal pressure; dilate.

v. To extend.

v. To extend or expand, as from internal pressure; to swell

v. To extend; to stretch out; to spread out.

v. To cause to swell.

v. To cause gravidity.

v. To extend in some one direction; to lengthen out; to stretch.

v. 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

verb-intransitive. To become expanded or inflated; to swell.

To stretch or spread in all directions; dilate; expand; swell out; enlarge: as, to distend a bladder; to distend the lungs.

To stretch in any direction; extend.

To widen; spread apart.

To become distended; swell.

v. become wider

v. cause to expand as it by internal pressure

v. swell from or as if from internal pressure

"The history of the word "distend" stretches back to the Latin verb "tendere""

constrict    contract   

distended    distending    distends   

widen    bloat    swell    swell up    tumefy    intumesce    tumesce   

distensible   

swell    enlarge    dilate    inflate    expand    plump    bloat    fill   

End    Friend    Mende    Wend    abend    amend    append    apprehend    ascend    attend