Increase vs Distend - What's the difference?

Increase is a related term of distend.

In lang=en terms the difference between increase and distend

is that increase is to make (a quantity) larger while distend is to cause to swell.

As verbs the difference between increase and distend

is that increase is (of a quantity) to become larger while distend is to extend or expand, as from internal pressure; to swell.

As a noun increase

is an amount by which a quantity is increased.

increase

English

Alternative forms

* encrease

Verb

(increas)

(of a quantity) To become larger.

* Bible, Genesis vii. 17

The waters increased and bare up the ark.

* Shakespeare

The heavens forbid / But that our loves and comforts should increase , / Even as our days do grow!

To make (a quantity) larger.

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To multiply by the production of young; to be fertile, fruitful, or prolific.

* Sir M. Hale

Fishes are more numerous of increasing than beasts or birds, as appears by their numerous spawn.

(astronomy) To become more nearly full; to show more of the surface; to wax.

The Moon increases .

Synonyms

* (become larger) go up, grow, rise, soar (rapidly), shoot up (rapidly) * (make larger) increment, raise, (informal) up

Antonyms

* (become larger) decrease, drop, fall, go down, plummet (rapidly), plunge (rapidly), reduce, shrink, sink * (make larger) cut, decrease, decrement, lower, reduce

Derived terms

* increasable

Noun

(en noun)

An amount by which a quantity is increased.

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For a quantity, the act or process of becoming larger

(knitting) The creation of one or more new stitches; see .

Synonyms

* (amount by which a quantity is increased) gain, increment, raise, rise

Antonyms

* (amount by which a quantity is increased) cut, decrease, decrement, drop, fall, loss, lowering, reduction, shrinkage

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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

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