| 单词 | distend |
| 释义 | distend (once / 2543 pages) v A soda and pizza binge might make your stomach distend, meaning your stomach will swell as a result of pressure from the inside. If you’ve ever eaten too much food it won’t surprise you to learn that the verb distend traces back to the Latin words dis-, meaning “apart,” and tendere, meaning “to stretch.” Your stomach will certainly feel stretched out if you do something — like overeat — that causes it to distend. The word distend often applies to stomachs — a pregnancy would also cause a stomach to distend — but it can also refer to anything that is stretched out as a result of internal pressure. WORD FAMILYdistend: distended, distending, distends, distensible, distension, distention+/distension: distensions USAGE EXAMPLESI attempted to push the air down, and my tummy distended like a child’s. New York Times(Dec 02, 2016) He felt her belly, not through the shirt but under it, his fingertips cold and rough like bark on her distended skin. Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns(2007) The youngest child, a boy with a distended belly, won’t leave the puppy alone and breaks into a wail when it snaps at him. Salon(Oct 24, 2016) 1v cause to expand as it by internal pressure The gas distended the animal's body Hyper bloat make bloated or swollen 2v swell from or as if from internal pressure The distended bellies of the starving cows Hyper intumesce, swell, swell up, tumefy, tumesce expand abnormally 3v become wider Syn|Hyper dilate widen become broader or wider or more extensive |
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