What is the difference between extend and distend?
extend | distend |
To increase in extent.
To possess a certain extent.
To cause to increase in extent.
To cause to last for a longer period of time.
To straighten (a limb).
To bestow; to offer; to impart; to apply.
To increase in quantity by weakening or adulterating additions.
(UK, legal) To value, as lands taken by a writ of extent in satisfaction of a debt; to assign by writ of extent.
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.
In intransitive terms the difference between extend and distend
is that extend is to possess a certain extent while distend is to extend or expand, as from internal pressure; to swell.In transitive terms the difference between extend and distend
is that extend is to straighten (a limb) while distend is to cause to swell.extend
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Verb
(en verb)- to extend sympathy to the suffering
- to extend liquors
Synonyms
* enlarge * expand * increase * lengthen * stretch * widenDerived terms
* extendible (adjective) * extensible (adjective) * extensive (adjective) * extension * extentAnagrams
*distend
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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?