English Dictionary

distend

IPA（発音記号）

/dɪˈstɛnd/

動詞

自動詞 古語 再帰形 他動詞

(intransitive) To extend or expand, as from internal pressure; to swell / (transitive, reflexive, archaic) To extend; to stretch out; to spread out. / (transitive) To cause to swell.

日本語の意味

内部圧力などによって拡大する、ふくらむ（自動詞） / 伸ばす、広げる（自動詞または反射的な用法、古風な表現） / ～をふくらませる（他動詞）

The balloon distended until it threatened to burst.

その風船は破裂しそうになるまで膨らんだ。

意味（1）

(intransitive) 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.

意味（2）

(transitive, reflexive, archaic) To extend; to stretch out; to spread out.

I begin to hate the theater, the feeling wickedly distended by histrionics, all my old gestures, clutchings, tears, and applications. 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.

意味（3）

(transitive) To cause to swell.

意味（4）

(biology) To cause gravidity.

distends （ present singular third-person ）

distending （ participle present ）

distended （ participle past ）

distended （ past ）