Extended or expanded, as from internal pressure; swollen.
distended
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for distended.
Editorial note
It’s about sodium-loaded pork fat, stinky triple-cream cheeses, the tender thymus glands and distended livers of young animals.
Quick take
Extended or expanded, as from internal pressure; swollen.
Meaning at a glance
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(biology) gravid.
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for distended.
adjective
Extended or expanded, as from internal pressure; swollen.
adjective
(biology) gravid.
Example sentences
It’s about sodium-loaded pork fat, stinky triple-cream cheeses, the tender thymus glands and distended livers of young animals.
You can see how it's a distended blob, and if it were a Congressional district, you'd worry about gerrymandering.
An autopsy carried out after he died found he had a distended inner ear, which developed lesions over time.
When distended like that, it has some reverse pressure that wants to flow back.
Emaciated bodies walking around, children with distended bellies everywhere and it was a secret?
A boy showed me a playboy magazine there; I thought the distended breasts were gross; I tattled.
This firm will outcompete less agile and well-integrated small firms and distended behemoths.
The pockets are easily distended and thus barely useable (I miss the 80s, when a distended suit pocket was the sign of that most ugly of status symbols, the mobile 'phone).
The writer imagines that the reader cares enough to have followed their entire journey, or to decode this enormously distended pile of words.
Extended (or rather, distended) Markdown flavors always make me queasy, and I don't love the snippet from Code Hike.
Without it, I will bloat to the point of a visibly distended stomach and pass rock hard stool once every 3ish days.
Poor people with children who have distended bellies and they're stretching bowls full of rice with dirty water because there's just nothing else to be had.
Quote examples
She'd yell out anguished shrieks of wordless pain or the word "fuck" stretched and distended to its limits.
I mean you're technically correct but then again it's like saying "the skin on your thigh is extremely distended and painful but that's because of the infected boil on it" as if the context is reasonable.
Victims developed grossly distended bellies and “angel wings”—emaciated shoulder blades accentuated by hunching.
"First I was a hippie, then I was a stock broker, now I am a hippie again." [1] Let's see them give the token opposing community activist on page 4 the same photography treatment instead of photographing him on the margins of the frame so he looks even more obese and distended.
Proper noun examples
Distended stomachs are caused by actual starvation and, no, those kids aren't fat in the slightest.
Frequently asked questions
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How do you use distended in a sentence?
It’s about sodium-loaded pork fat, stinky triple-cream cheeses, the tender thymus glands and distended livers of young animals.
What does distended mean?
Extended or expanded, as from internal pressure; swollen.
What part of speech is distended?
distended is commonly used as adjective.