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Distend vs Spread_out - What's the difference?

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As verbs the difference between distend and spread_out

is that distend is to extend or expand, as from internal pressure; to swell while spread_out is become further apart.

distend

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To extend or expand, as from internal pressure; to swell
  • *
  • (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):
    • 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.
  • * Milton
    • But say, what mean those coloured streaks in heaven / Distended as the brow of God appeased?
  • To cause to swell.
  • (biology) To cause gravidity.

    • Derived terms

    * distensible

    References

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    spread_out

    English

    Verb

  • (idiomatic) Become further apart.
    • The police spread out to search a wider area.
  • (idiomatic) To place items further apart.
    • Spread''' the cards '''out and then turn two of them over at random.

    Usage notes

    In the transitive sense 2, the object may appear before or after the particle. If the object is a pronoun, then it must be before the particle.

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