Dictionary Entry
dilate
dilate is a 6-letter English word with 7 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, adjective, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To expand; to distend; to enlarge or extend in all directions; to swell; -- opposed to contract; as, the air dilates the lungs; air is dilated by increase of heat. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 8 · 7 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To expand; to distend; to enlarge or extend in all directions; to swell; -- opposed to contract; as, the air dilates the lungs; air is dilated by increase of heat.
- 2transitive verb
To enlarge upon; to relate at large; to tell copiously or diffusely.
- 3intransitive verb
To grow wide; to expand; to swell or extend in all directions.
- 4intransitive verb
To speak largely and copiously; to dwell in narration; to enlarge; -- with on or upon.
- 5adjective
Extensive; expanded.
- 6verb
become wider
"His pupils were dilated"
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- 7verb
add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing
"She elaborated on the main ideas in her dissertation"
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