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Word entry · 7 letters

distend

Best crossword clue

"Swell outward"

7 letters · collected on this word page

7 lettersPronunciation /dɪˈstɛnd/Part of speech verbSorted ddeinstStarts with DEnds with D1 clues
1D2I3S4T5E6N7D

Definitions

  1. swell from or as if from internal pressure

Word origin

Borrowed from Latin distendō.

Used in a sentence

  • I begin to hate the theater, the feeling wickedly distended by histrionics, all the old gestures, clutchings, tears, and applications.
  • These impure and frail matters are conteined within the angust concave of the Lunar Orb, above which with uninterrupted Series the things Celestial distend themselves.
  • But say, what mean those coloured streaks in heaven / Distended as the brow of God appeased?

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