dilationnoun [ U ]
uk/daɪˈleɪ.ʃən//daɪˈleɪ.ʃən/specializedthe state of being larger or more open than usual
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Becoming bigger
- accrue
- augment
- billow
- bloat
- broaden
- enlarge
- enlargement
- expansion
- extend
- extendable
- extension
- grow
- oak
- regenerate
- scalability
- scalable
- scaleable
- shoot
- stretch
- supersize
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Examples from literature
- As she lowered her head in the movement, the dilation of her nostrils repressed a smile of satisfaction.
- During the operations of dilation of the urethra, I passed some gravel.
- Her eyes lost their dilation of fear.
- She knew it by the sudden softening of his voice as he spoke to her, by the curious brilliant dilation of his eyes as they followed her about the room.
- Systole and diastole, the contraction and dilation of the heart and arteries.