distend

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Instead, random bits of the Peep chick — its flat base, the curved neck, the tail — distend until they look like bubbles about to burst.

From Salon • Feb. 2, 2023

Its body seemed to distend, its muscles to melt.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 11, 2019

Like dispatches from another dimension, Katz’s drawings distend the ordinary geometry of the comics page, much as desire contorts the imagination.

From Slate • Mar. 30, 2018

Does the league really want to so distend its compensation scale for any commissioner, much less this one?

From Washington Post • Nov. 14, 2017

When a man falls upon his knees and grieves, doth not his musculature contract and his ligaments distend?

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson