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distended — index inflated (enlarged) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
distended — [adj] swollen bloated, bulging, enlarged, expanded, inflated, puffed out, puffy, stretched, tumescent, tumid, turgid; concept 485 … New thesaurus
distended — distendedly, adv. distendedness, n. /di sten did/, adj. 1. increased, as in size, volume, etc.; expanded; dilated: the distended nostrils of the terrified horse. 2. swollen, by or as by internal pressure, out of normal size or shape; protuberant … Universalium
Distended — Distend Dis*tend , v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Distended}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Distending}.] [L. distendere, distentum, distensum; dis + tendere to stretch, stretch out: cf. F. distendre to distend, d[ e]tendre to unbend. See {Tend}, and cf. {Detent}.] 1.… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
distended swollen — expanded expanded adj. increased in extent or size or bulk or scope. Opposite of {contracted}. [Narrower terms: {blown up, enlarged}; {dilated}; {distended, swollen}; {inflated}] [WordNet 1.5] 2. (Printnig) wider than usual for a particular… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
distended — adj. Distended is used with these nouns: ↑belly … Collocations dictionary
distended — adjective a distended abdomen Syn: swollen, bloated, dilated, engorged, enlarged, inflated, expanded, extended, bulging, protuberant … Thesaurus of popular words
distended — distend ► VERB ▪ swell because of internal pressure. DERIVATIVES distended adjective distensibility noun distensible adjective distension noun. ORIGIN Latin distendere, from tendere to stretch … English terms dictionary
distended scales — erected scales, a symptom of various fish diseases involving swellings such as dropsies … Dictionary of ichthyology
distended — adjective a) Extended or expanded, as from internal pressure; swollen. b) gravid … Wiktionary
distended — Synonyms and related words: adipose, bagging, baggy, ballooning, beefy, bellying, big bellied, billowing, billowy, bloated, blown up, blowzy, bosomy, brawny, bulbose, bulbous, bulging, bumped, bumpy, bunched, bunchy, burly, bursting, buxom,… … Moby Thesaurus
