distend
pronunciation
How to pronounce distend in British English:
UK [dɪˈstend]
How to pronounce distend in American English:
US [dɪˈstɛnd]
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- Verb:
- become wider
- cause to expand as it by internal pressure
- swell from or as if from internal pressure
Word Origin
- distend
- distend: see tend
- distend (v.)
- c. 1400, from Latin distendere "to swell or stretch out, extend," from dis- "apart" (see dis-) + tendere "to stretch" (see tenet). Related: Distended; distending.
Example
- 1. Does the abdomen how to cure kidney stone distend ?
- 2. The stomach aches , the acupuncture may distend kind .
- 3. We likewise hope to distend our business with you .
- 4. There be no appetite , distend , do having vomited , abdomen pain .
- 5. Carcinoma of the rectum skill queen intestinal adhesion , the ileus , distend unnecessarily .