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Meaning of DISTENDED

Pronunciation:  di'stendid

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 Definition: 
  1. [adj]  abnormally expanded or increased in size; (`swollen' is sometimes used in combination); "distended wineskins"; "the need to clean out swollen inventories"; "the raisins were plump and soft and swollen from being soaked"; "huge blood-swollen mosquitoes"
  2. [adj]  abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas; "hungry children with bloated stomachs"; "he had a grossly distended stomach"; "eyes with puffed (or puffy) lids"; "swollen hands"; "tumescent tissue"; "puffy tumid flesh"
 
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 Synonyms: bloated, expanded, puffed, puffy, swollen, tumescent, tumid, turgid, unhealthy
 

 

 

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 Related Terms: adipose, bagging, baggy, ballooning, beefy, bellying, big-bellied, billowing, billowy, bloated, blown up, blowzy, bosomy, brawny, bulbose, bulbous, bulging, bumped, bumpy, bunched, bunchy, burly, bursting, buxom, choked, chubby, chunky, congested, corpulent, crammed, crowded, dilated, drenched, dropsical, dumpy, edematous, enchymatous, fat, fattish, filled to overflowing, flatulent, fleshy, full, gassy, glutted, gorged, gross, heavyset, hefty, hillocky, hippy, hummocky, hyperemic, imposing, in spate, incrassate, inflated, jammed, jam-packed, lusty, meaty, moutonnee, obese, overblown, overburdened, overcharged, overfed, overflowing, overfraught, overfreighted, overfull, overladen, overloaded, overstocked, overstuffed, oversupplied, overweight, overweighted, packed, paunchy, plethoric, plump, pneumatic, podgy, portly, potbellied, pouching, pudgy, puffed up, puffy, pursy, ready to burst, roly-poly, rotund, rounded, running over, satiated, saturated, soaked, square, squat, squatty, stalwart, stocky, stout, strapping, stuffed, stuffed up, supercharged, supersaturated, surcharged, surfeited, swelled, swelling, swollen, thick-bodied, thickset, top-heavy, tubby, tumid, turgid, ventose, verrucated, verrucose, warty, well-fed, windy
 

 

 

 

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