Dictionary Entry
distend
distend is a 7-letter English word with 6 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To extend in some one direction; to lengthen out; to stretch. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 10 · 6 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To extend in some one direction; to lengthen out; to stretch.
- 2transitive verb
To stretch out or extend in all directions; to dilate; to enlarge, as by elasticity of parts; to inflate so as to produce tension; to cause to swell; as, to distend a bladder, the stomach, etc.
- 3intransitive verb
To become expanded or inflated; to swell.
- 4verb
swell from or as if from internal pressure
"The distended bellies of the starving cows"
- 5verb
cause to expand as it by internal pressure
"The gas distended the animal's body"
- 6verb
become wider
"His pupils were dilated"
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