distend

英 [dɪ'stend] 美 [dɪ'stend]

• v. 扩大；扩张；吹大；膨胀

英英释义

Verb:

1. become wider;

   "His pupils were dilated"
   

2. cause to expand as it by internal pressure;

   "The gas distended the animal's body"
   

3. swell from or as if from internal pressure;

   "The distended bellies of the starving cows"
   

经典引文

• On engines they distend their tortur'd joints.

  出自： Dryden

近反义词

【近义词】

• swell （使）膨胀
• enlarge 扩大
• increase 增加
• expand 使 ... 膨胀
• widen 加宽
• magnify 放大
• stretch 伸展
• bulge 膨胀
• balloon 气球
• aggrandize 增加
• broaden 变宽
• bloat 使肿胀
• inflate 使膨胀
• swell up 膨胀
• out 出
• blow 打击
• blow out 吹灭(突然爆裂...
• dilate 使扩大