distend

动词 v.
中文释义
英 /dɪˈstɛnd/   

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To extend or expand, as from internal pressure; to swell intransitive
    — 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. To extend; to stretch out; to spread out. archaic,reflexive,transitive
    — 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. To cause to swell. transitive
  4. To cause gravidity.

词形变化

distends present,singular,third-person distending participle,present distended participle,past distended past

词汇关系

衍生词
distendable distender distensible distensive

词源

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁
Proto-Indo-European *d(w)is-
Proto-Italic *dis-
Latin dis-
Proto-Indo-European *ten-
Proto-Indo-European *tend-der.
Proto-Italic *tendō
Latin tendō
Latin distendōbor.
English distend
Borrowed from Latin distendō.
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