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# distend

«distend» in Mova's school dictionary: **To swell out or stretch because of pressure from inside** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (distend, distends, distended, distending)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To swell out or stretch because of pressure from inside. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/distend/#m1)

2) distended (adjective): swollen and puffed out. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/distend/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In science and health, a stomach or balloon distends when filled with gas or liquid; in news about hunger, children with distended bellies may be badly fed; phrases: «a distended stomach», «distend with gas».

### examples

- The balloon distended as we blew air into it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/distend/#x1)
- After the big meal, his tummy felt distended. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/distend/#x2)
- Starving children can have distended bellies. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/distend/#x3)
- The snake's body distended as it swallowed the egg. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/distend/#x4)
- The vet felt the dog's distended belly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/distend/#x5)
- Water made the sponge distend. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/distend/#x6)

### note

Regular verb. Noun: distension (UK also distention). Medical and formal word; simpler: swell, bloat.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «distend» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/distend/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.