Distends vs Disbends - What's the difference?
distends | disbends |
(distend)
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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.
As verbs the difference between distends and disbends
is that distends is (distend) while disbends is (disbend).distends
English
Verb
(head)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?
