verb
- Become wider.
- usage: "His pupils were dilated"
- synonyms: dilate
- Cause to expand as it by internal pressure.
- usage: "The gas distended the animal's body"
- Swell from or as if from internal pressure.
- usage: "The distended bellies of the starving cows"
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