Distend vs Flatulence - What's the difference?
distend | flatulence |
To extend or expand, as from internal pressure; to swell
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(transitive, reflexive, archaic) To extend; to stretch out; to spread out.
* 1662 Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Dialogue 2):
* Milton
To cause to swell.
(biology) To cause gravidity.
The state of having gas, often malodorous, trapped (and often released, frequently with noise) in the digestive system of a human and some other animals; wind; and when released, a flatus, a fart.
The release of such gas, farting.
As a verb distend
is to extend or expand, as from internal pressure; to swell.As a noun flatulence is
the state of having gas, often malodorous, trapped (and often released, frequently with noise) in the digestive system of a human and some other animals; wind; and when released, a flatus, a fart.distend
English
Verb
(en verb)- 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.
- But say, what mean those coloured streaks in heaven / Distended as the brow of God appeased?