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distended
 
Adjective distended has 2 senses
  1. bloated, distended, puffed, puffy, swollen, tumescent, tumid, turgid - abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas; "hungry children with bloated stomachs"; "he had a grossly distended stomach"; "eyes with puffed (or puffy) lids"; "swollen hands"; "tumescent tissue"; "puffy tumid flesh"
    Antonym: healthy (indirect, via unhealthy)
  2. distended, swollen - abnormally expanded or increased in size; (`swollen' is sometimes used in combination); "distended wineskins"; "the need to clean out swollen inventories"; "the raisins were plump and soft and swollen from being soaked"; "huge blood-swollen mosquitoes"
    Antonym: contracted (indirect, via expanded)
Verb distend has 3 senses
  1. dilate, distend - become wider; "His pupils were dilated"
    --1 is one way to widen
    Derived forms: noun distention2, noun distension2, noun distension1
    Sample sentences:
    Something ----s
    Somebody ----s something
    Something ----s something
  2. distend - cause to expand as it by internal pressure; "The gas distended the animal's body"
    --2 is one way to     bloat
    Derived form: noun distention2
    Sample sentence:
    Something ----s something
  3. distend - swell from or as if from internal pressure; "The distended bellies of the starving cows"
    --3 is one way to     swell, swell up, intumesce, tumefy, tumesce
    Derived forms: noun distension2, noun distension1, noun distention2
    Sample sentence:
    Did his feet distend?
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