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distends
 
Verb distend has 3 senses
  1. dilate, distend - become wider; "His pupils were dilated"
    --1 is one way to widen
    Derived forms: noun distention2, noun distension2, noun distension1
    Sample sentences:
    Something ----s
    Somebody ----s something
    Something ----s something
  2. distend - cause to expand as it by internal pressure; "The gas distended the animal's body"
    --2 is one way to     bloat
    Derived form: noun distention2
    Sample sentence:
    Something ----s something
  3. distend - swell from or as if from internal pressure; "The distended bellies of the starving cows"
    --3 is one way to     swell, swell up, intumesce, tumefy, tumesce
    Derived forms: noun distension2, noun distension1, noun distention2
    Sample sentence:
    Did his feet distend?
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