distend
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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- core relation
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- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
become wider
His pupils were dilated
Types & categories
- widen hypernym
Related & opposite
- dilation derivation
- distension derivation
- dilater derivation
- dilator derivation
- dilator derivation
- dilatation derivation
- distensible derivation
Sense 2 verb
cause to expand as it by internal pressure
The gas distended the animal's body
Types & categories
- bloat hypernym
Related & opposite
- distension derivation
- distend verb group
Sense 3 verb
swell from or as if from internal pressure
The distended bellies of the starving cows
Types & categories
- swell up hypernym
Related & opposite
- distension derivation
- dilatation derivation
- distend verb group
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | dilation |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | distension |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | dilater |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | dilator |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | dilator |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | dilatation |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | distensible |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | widen |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | distension |
| 2 | verb group | Related & opposite | distend |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | bloat |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | distension |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | dilatation |
| 3 | verb group | Related & opposite | distend |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | swell up |