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Distend   Listen
verb
Distend  v. i.  To become expanded or inflated; to swell. "His heart distends with pride."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Distend" Quotes from Famous Books



... the contents bit by bit until the whole is nearly removed, or until you can see the brilliant colour shining through what remains in the cavity—better leave a little too much than be too nice in clearing all away; then, with a blowpipe, distend the empty abdomen; it will very soon become firm, and retain its original form, but until it is so the blowing must be ...
— Practical Taxidermy • Montagu Browne



Words linked to "Distend" :   widen, tumesce, distention, swell up, distension, dilate, bloat, swell



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