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Distended vs Distant - What's the difference?

distended | distant |

As adjectives the difference between distended and distant

is that distended is extended or expanded, as from internal pressure; swollen while distant is far off (physically, logically or mentally).

As a verb distended

is (distend).

distended

English

Verb

(head)
  • (distend)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Extended or expanded, as from internal pressure; swollen.
  • (biology) gravid.

    • distant

    English

    Alternative forms

    * distaunt (obsolete) * dystant (obsolete) * dystaunt (obsolete)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Far off (physically, logically or mentally).
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4 , passage=Judge Short had gone to town, and Farrar was off for a three days' cruise up the lake. I was bitterly regretting I had not gone with him when the distant notes of a coach horn reached my ear, and I descried a four-in-hand winding its way up the inn road from the direction of Mohair.}}
  • Emotionally unresponsive or unwilling to express genuine feelings.

    • Related terms

    * distance * equidistant

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