distend

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To extend or expand, as from internal pressure; to swell

   “Then came the arrowy flight and form of the hurricane itself—its actual bulk—its imbodied power, pressing along through the forest in a gyratory progress, not fifty yards wide, never distending in width, yet capriciously winding from right to left and left to right.”

2. fiil To extend; to stretch out; to spread out.

   “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.”

3. fiil To cause to swell.
4. fiil To cause gravidity.