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Từ điển Oxford Learners Wordfinder Dictionary
distend
1. become wider
- His pupils were dilated
• Syn:
dilate
• Derivationally related forms:
distensible, distention, distension, dilator (for: dilate), dilation (for: dilate), dilatation (for: dilate)
• Hypernyms:
widen
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s
- Somebody ----s something
- Something ----s something
2. cause to expand as it by internal pressure
- The gas distended the animal's body
• Derivationally related forms:
distention
• Hypernyms:
bloat
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s something
3. swell from or as if from internal pressure
- The distended bellies of the starving cows
• Derivationally related forms:
distension, distention
• Hypernyms:
swell, swell up, intumesce, tumefy, tumesce
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s
- Did his feet distend?
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Words pronounced/spelled similarly to "distend":
distant distend
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Words contain "distend" in its definition in Vietnamese - English dictionary:
phưỡn sình rực
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