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Distends vs Dispends - What's the difference?

distends | dispends |

As verbs the difference between distends and dispends

is that distends is third-person singular of distend while dispends is third-person singular of dispend.

distends

English

Verb

(head)
  • (distend)
    • ----

    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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    dispends

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (dispend)

    • dispend

    English

    Verb

  • (obsolete) To spend or expend.
  • *, II.3.2:
  • *:Those Roman knights were so called, if they could dispend per annum so much.
  • (obsolete) To waste or squander.
  • (obsolete) To distribute or dispense.