distended

distend /dis'tend/
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    • làm sưng to, làm sưng phồng (mạch máu...); làm căng phồng (khí cầu...)
    • nội động từ
      • sưng to, sưng phồng (mạch máu...); căng phồng (khí cầu...)

    Xem thêm: bloated, puffed, puffy, swollen, intumescent, tumescent, tumid, turgid, swollen, dilate



    distended

    Từ điển WordNet

      adj.

    • abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas; bloated, puffed, puffy, swollen, intumescent, tumescent, tumid, turgid

      hungry children with bloated stomachs

      he had a grossly distended stomach

      eyes with puffed (or puffy) lids

      swollen hands

      tumescent tissue

      puffy tumid flesh

    • abnormally expanded or increased in size; (`swollen' is sometimes used in combination); swollen

      distended wineskins

      the need to clean out swollen inventories

      the raisins were plump and soft and swollen from being soaked

      huge blood-swollen mosquitoes

      v.

    • become wider; dilate

      His pupils were dilated

    • cause to expand as it by internal pressure

      The gas distended the animal's body

    • swell from or as if from internal pressure

      The distended bellies of the starving cows


    English Synonym and Antonym Dictionary

    distends|distended|distending
    syn.: blow out bulge enlarge expand increase magnify stretch swell widen