distend / dɪˈstɛnd /

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distend 的定义

v. 无主动词 verb
  1. to expand by stretching, as something hollow or elastic: Habitual overeating had distended his stomach.
  2. to spread in all directions; expand; swell: The sea distended about them.

distend 近义词

v. 动词 verb

bulge, swell

更多distend例句

  1. They drink too much, their bellies distend, and most possess a predilection for siliconed blondes and themed belt buckles.
  2. She was seized by the nose and chin, as if she had been a horse, and made to distend her jaws even painfully.
  3. Furl—To roll up and make sails fast so that the wind cannot distend them.
  4. At times he would distend himself with pneumatic vestments in the rococo vein.
  5. It may seem surprising that the discoverer of the venous return felt the need of a deus ex machina to distend the right auricle.
  6. 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.