Distended

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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. To extend in some one direction; to lengthen out; to


        stretch. [R.]
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              But say, what mean those colored streaks in heaven
              Distended as the brow of God appeased? --Milton.
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     2. 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.
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              The warmth distends the chinks.       --Dryden.
  
     Syn: To dilate; expand; enlarge; swell; inflate.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  distended
       adj 1: abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas; "hungry
              children with bloated stomachs"; "he had a grossly
              distended stomach"; "eyes with puffed (or puffy)
              lids"; "swollen hands"; "tumescent tissue"; "puffy
              tumid flesh" [syn: {bloated}, {puffed}, {puffy}, {swollen},
               {tumescent}, {tumid}, {turgid}]
       2: abnormally expanded or increased in size; (`swollen' is
          sometimes used in combination); "distended wineskins";
          "the need to clean out swollen inventories"; "the raisins
          were plump and soft and swollen from being soaked"; "huge
          blood-swollen mosquitoes" [syn: {swollen}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  127 Moby Thesaurus words for "distended":
     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, choked, chubby, chunky, congested, corpulent,
     crammed, crowded, dilated, drenched, dropsical, dumpy, edematous,
     enchymatous, fat, fattish, filled to overflowing, flatulent,
     fleshy, full, gassy, glutted, gorged, gross, heavyset, hefty,
     hillocky, hippy, hummocky, hyperemic, imposing, in spate,
     incrassate, inflated, jam-packed, jammed, lusty, meaty, moutonnee,
     obese, overblown, overburdened, overcharged, overfed, overflowing,
     overfraught, overfreighted, overfull, overladen, overloaded,
     overstocked, overstuffed, oversupplied, overweight, overweighted,
     packed, paunchy, plethoric, plump, pneumatic, podgy, portly,
     potbellied, pouching, pudgy, puffed up, puffy, pursy,
     ready to burst, roly-poly, rotund, rounded, running over, satiated,
     saturated, soaked, square, squat, squatty, stalwart, stocky, stout,
     strapping, stuffed, stuffed up, supercharged, supersaturated,
     surcharged, surfeited, swelled, swelling, swollen, thick-bodied,
     thickset, top-heavy, tubby, tumid, turgid, ventose, verrucated,
     verrucose, warty, well-fed, windy