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

1. transitive 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.
2. transitive verb. To enlarge upon; to relate at large; to tell copiously or diffusely.
3. intransitive verb. To grow wide; to expand; to swell or extend in all directions.
4. intransitive verb. To speak largely and copiously; to dwell in narration; to enlarge; -- with on or upon.
5. adjective. Extensive; expanded.
6. verb. become wider

   "His pupils were dilated"

   Synonyms: distend

7. verb. 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"

   Synonyms: elaborate, enlarge, expand, expatiate, exposit, expound, lucubrate

Synonyms

distend, elaborate, enlarge, expand, expatiate, exposit, expound, lucubrate

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in dilate:

detail, dietal, edital, tailed

Common word forms

dilated, dilater, dilates, dilating, dilatement

Words from these letters

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