distend
/dih-STEND/verbto swell by pressure from inside
“Hunger had distended the refugees' bellies.”
- Synonyms
- swell, bloat, inflate
- Antonyms
- contract, shrink
- Memory hook
- dis + tendere (stretch): stretched outward.
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