Definitions
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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01“Swell outward”7 letters
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