distend 的定义
- to expand by stretching, as something hollow or elastic: Habitual overeating had distended his stomach.
 - to spread in all directions; expand; swell: The sea distended about them.
 
distend 近义词
bulge, swell
更多distend例句
- They drink too much, their bellies distend, and most possess a predilection for siliconed blondes and themed belt buckles.
 - She was seized by the nose and chin, as if she had been a horse, and made to distend her jaws even painfully.
 - Furl—To roll up and make sails fast so that the wind cannot distend them.
 - At times he would distend himself with pneumatic vestments in the rococo vein.
 - It may seem surprising that the discoverer of the venous return felt the need of a deus ex machina to distend the right auricle.
 - This loose skin, that is now so folded up under my beak that you can scarcely see it, I can distend into an enormous pouch.