Thesaurus / distend
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By the late eighties she called Aspen a golden goose and worried that it was dying, distended by the richness shoved down its throat.
THE LAST ASPEN SKI BUMS ARE ABOUT TO GET EVICTEDLWHELANNOVEMBER 9, 2021OUTSIDE ONLINEShe was seized by the nose and chin, as if she had been a horse, and made to distend her jaws even painfully.
HUBERT'S WIFEMINNIE MARY LEEFurl—To roll up and make sails fast so that the wind cannot distend them.
ON YACHT SAILINGTHOMAS FLEMING DAYAt times he would distend himself with pneumatic vestments in the rococo vein.
TALES OF SPACE AND TIMEHERBERT GEORGE WELLSIt may seem surprising that the discoverer of the venous return felt the need of a deus ex machina to distend the right auricle.
HARVEY'S VIEWS ON THE USE OF THE CIRCULATION OF THE BLOODJOHN G. CURTISThis loose skin, that is now so folded up under my beak that you can scarcely see it, I can distend into an enormous pouch.
ROUND-ABOUT RAMBLES IN LANDS OF FACT AND FANCYFRANK RICHARD STOCKTONIt is a mistake to think that that little room has elastic walls and can distend to any extent.
A STUDY IN SCARLETARTHUR CONAN DOYLEOr lastly introduce a gut fixed to a pipe; and then distend it by blowing wind into it.
ZOONOMIA, VOL. IIERASMUS DARWINThe amount of water usually injected at one time—from one pint to two quarts—can hardly be said to distend the bowels at all.
INTESTINAL ILLSALCINOUS BURTON JAMISONDistend and contract an organ for a short time two or three times a day, and it will gain in strength from the exercise.
INTESTINAL ILLSALCINOUS BURTON JAMISONWORDS RELATED TO DISTEND
- amplify
- branch out
- bridge
- burst forth
- cover
- crane
- develop
- distend
- drag out
- draw
- draw out
- expand
- fill
- go
- grow
- inflate
- lengthen
- lie out
- magnify
- make
- make taut
- make tense
- open
- overlap
- pad
- prolong
- prolongate
- protract
- pull
- pull out
- pyramid
- rack
- range
- reach
- recline
- repose
- run
- shoot up
- span
- spin out
- spread
- spread out
- spring up
- strain
- string out
- swell
- tauten
- tighten
- unfold
- unroll
- widen
- accumulate
- add to
- aggravate
- amplify
- augment
- balloon
- be inflated
- become bloated
- become distended
- become swollen
- belly
- billow
- blister
- bloat
- bulge
- dilate
- distend
- enhance
- enlarge
- expand
- extend
- fatten
- fill out
- grow
- grow larger
- heighten
- increase
- intensity
- mount
- plump
- pouch
- pout
- protrude
- puff
- puff up
- rise
- round out
- surge
- tumefy
- uprise
- well up
- accumulated
- added to
- aggravated
- amplified
- augmented
- ballooned
- be inflated
- became bloated
- became swollen
- become distended
- bellied
- billowed
- blistered
- bloated
- bulged
- dilated
- distended
- enhanced
- enlarged
- expanded
- extended
- fattened
- filled out
- grew
- grew larger
- heightened
- increased
- intensitied
- mounted
- plumped
- pouched
- pouted
- protruded
- puffed
- puffed up
- rose
- rounded out
- surged
- tumefied
- uprised
- well up
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