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distension
noun as in expansion
noun as in extension
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noun as in fatness
noun as in fullness
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noun as in inflation
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noun as in prolongation
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noun as in protraction
noun as in satiation
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- adequateness
- ampleness
- amplitude
- broadness
- completeness
- completion
- comprehensiveness
- congestion
- copiousness
- curvaceousness
- dilation
- engorgement
- enlargement
- entirety
- extensiveness
- fill
- glut
- plenitude
- plenty
- plenum
- profusion
- repletion
- roundness
- satiety
- saturation
- scope
- sufficiency
- surfeit
- swelling
- totality
- tumescence
- vastness
- voluptuousness
- wealth
- wholeness
- wideness
Example Sentences
It is capable of considerable distension, and after retraction, to allow of the child passing down it from the Womb.
It presently reduced the anasarcous swellings, but made no alteration in the distension of the abdomen.
As the distension of the belly had been very great, a swathe was applied, and drawn gradually tighter as the water was evacuated.
This kind of ant has a distension of the abdomen in which honey is stored by the workers for cases of need.
His mouth was closed, but his nostrils seemed undergoing a rhythmical contraction and distension most interesting and unusual.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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