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See definition of dilated on Dictionary.com
  • as inenlarged
  • as ininflated
  • as inwide

synonyms for dilated

  • expanded
  • extended
  • inflated
  • intensified
  • magnified
  • swollen
  • aggrandized
  • amplified
  • augmented
  • broadened
  • caricatured
  • developed
  • distended
  • elaborated
  • exaggerated
  • lengthened
  • spread
  • stretched
  • widened
  • added to
  • blown up
  • filled out
  • tumid
  • turgid
On this page you'll find 128 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to dilated, such as: expanded, extended, inflated, intensified, magnified, and swollen.

antonyms for dilated

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  • compressed
  • contracted
  • shrunken
  • reduced
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How to use dilated in a sentence

She turned her bright eyes, with their dilated pupils, slowly away from his, and looked down over the river.
BELLA DONNAROBERT HICHENS
Isabel's imagination dilated him into a disembodied intellect surrounded by mere statues of human flesh.
ANCESTORSGERTRUDE ATHERTON
He stared at her until his own pupils dilated, but she replied more tranquilly than she felt.
ANCESTORSGERTRUDE ATHERTON
The patient breathed regularly, his eyes opened, the dilated pupils contracted, and he turned his head.
ESSAYS IN PASTORAL MEDICINEAUSTIN MALLEY
Her closed eyes parted their lids; the dilated pupils resumed their normal size.
BALSAMO, THE MAGICIANALEXANDER DUMAS
Sepulchrally he spake some words which Nita repeated after him through stiff white lips, her eyes dilated with horror.
THEY LOOKED AND LOVEDMRS. ALEX MCVEIGH MILLER
Robinson got up and came to Jem, who was standing with dilated eyes looking at the ground in the very corner of the tent.
IT IS NEVER TOO LATE TO MENDCHARLES READE
So they tuned their instruments and touched their strings and struck up with plaintive 518 airs that dilated the mourning heart.
ALAEDDIN AND THE ENCHANTED LAMPJOHN PAYNE
Thyra stood with dishevelled hair, and dilated eyes fixed upon the approaching army, at which she pointed with trembling fingers.
JACK HARKAWAY'S BOY TINKER AMONG THE TURKSBRACEBRIDGE HEMYNG
The horses are splendid animals; with dilated nostrils, and necks proudly arched, they seem to prance to the music of the flutes.
GREEK SCULPTUREESTELLE M. HURLL
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WORDS RELATED TO DILATED

  • added to
  • aggrandized
  • amplified
  • augmented
  • blown up
  • broadened
  • caricatured
  • developed
  • dilated
  • distended
  • elaborated
  • exaggerated
  • expanded
  • extended
  • filled out
  • inflated
  • intensified
  • lengthened
  • magnified
  • spread
  • stretched
  • swollen
  • tumid
  • turgid
  • widened
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