verb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Air is introduced into the stomach to distend it for easier visualisation.
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But that night, after dinner, he began to groan and Lula noticed that his stomach was distended.
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His interest would be aroused, his member distended.
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His trembling hands reached out toward the old woman, his eyes distended, enraged.
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In congestive heart failure, it is diminished because of low cardiac output and reduced arterial distending pressure.
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See their gills distend with the movement and the flurry of pectoral fins that give the subtle shunting manoeuvre.
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That heroine of Assassins had distended her jaws and throat and belly by means of Polymorphine, like a python.
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Watching closely, Davies noticed that as the male pecked, the female's cloaca became pink and distended.