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US
/dɪˈstɛnd/
]
[ UK /dɪstˈɛnd/ ]
[ UK /dɪstˈɛnd/ ]
VERB
-
cause to expand as it by internal pressure
The gas distended the animal's body -
become wider
His pupils were dilated -
swell from or as if from internal pressure
The distended bellies of the starving cows
How To Use distend In A Sentence
- After many days I noticed my belly was becoming distended.
- Her head is swollen and her tiny stomach distended.
- The starchy food created gas, and the bowels, not having their natural tone, gave way to the gas until there was _ "Meteorism," _ not tympanites but meteorism which means to blow up or distend all that is possible. Appendicitis
- His playing is more austere than on Big Deep, rattling off scrapes and stunted scrabbles with occasional distended, detuned bass action.
- His doctor noticed immediately that Tom did look ill: his skin and the whites of his eyes had a yellowish hue this is called jaundice, and he had a swollen, distended abdomen. DR. SANJIV CHOPRA’S LIVER BOOK
- Computed tomography showed a large anterior abdominal wall hernia containing distended bowel loops.
- The baby boomers were a population frog moving through the snake of American cultural history, distending its shape by the outsize percentage of the population they represented. Alberta Hunter: Don't Trust Anyone Under 80
- Rama cupida aequandi bovem, se distendebat, &c. 1717. alit ingenia: Paterculus poster. Anatomy of Melancholy
- At present he is thin, has severe jaundice and his body is distended as his own liver has become swollen and hard.
- Expose surface and screw head should be wiped antirust oil in the distend cover after finishing.