Widen vs Distend - What's the difference?
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To become wide or wider.
To make wide or wider.
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To let out clothes to a larger size.
To broaden or extend in scope or range.
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 widen and distend
is that widen is to become wide or wider while distend is to extend or expand, as from internal pressure; to swell.In transitive terms the difference between widen and distend
is that widen is to broaden or extend in scope or range while distend is to cause to swell.widen
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Verb
(en verb)- His eyes widened as her negligee fell to the floor.
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- She widened his trousers for him.
- The police widened their enquiries.
Anagrams
* * * English ergative verbsdistend
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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?