Distend vs Expatiate - What's the difference?
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Distend is a related term of expatiate. As verbs the difference between distend and expatiate is that distend is to extend or expand, as from internal pressure; to swell while expatiate is to range at large, or without restraint.
distend English
Verb
( en verb)
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):
- 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
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expatiate English
Verb
( expatiat)
To range at large, or without restraint.
* Alexander Pope
- Bids his free soul expatiate in the skies.
To write or speak at length; to be copious in argument or discussion, to descant.
*1851 ,
- Now, as the business of standing mast-heads, ashore or afloat, is a very ancient and interesting one, let us in some measure expatiate here.
* Addison
- He expatiated on the inconveniences of trade.
* 2007 , Clive James, Cultural Amnesia (Picador 2007, p. 847)
*:“It can't fly,” he expatiated . “It can move forward only by hopping.”
(obsolete) To expand; to spread; to extend; to diffuse; to broaden.
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