Crossword-Solution: DISTEND
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Distend | v. t. | To extend in some one direction; to lengthen out; to stretch. |
| Distend | v. t. | To stretch out or extend in all directions; to dilate; to enlarge, as by elasticity of parts; to inflate so as to produce tension; to cause to swell; as, to distend a bladder, the stomach, etc. |
| Distend | v. i. | To become expanded or inflated; to swell. |
We have 31 clues for the answer “DISTEND”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Expand by stretching. | 1 answer |
| Expand by pressure from within. | 1 answer |
| Bulge outwards | 1 answer |
| Bloat, as one's abdomen | 1 answer |
| feed up | 2 answers |
| TAKE open order | 5 answers |
| MAKE wider | 5 answers |
| maximise | 9 answers |
| Puff up | 10 answers |
| Broaden | 12 answers |
| bloat | 13 answers |
| MAKE plump | 13 answers |
| BELLY out | 13 answers |
| Widen | 18 answers |
| Stretch (out) | 21 answers |
| MAKE broader | 21 answers |
| Let (out) | 28 answers |
| dilate | 29 answers |
| amplify | 33 answers |
| Heave | 39 answers |
| bulge | 39 answers |
| Inflate | 39 answers |
| fill out | 40 answers |
| Stuff | 46 answers |
| BALLOON ___ | 46 answers |
| MOVE sinuously | 49 answers |
| Blow up. | 49 answers |
| Stretch | 56 answers |
| Expand | 59 answers |
| Swell | 66 answers |
| grow | 72 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
AZECME
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with DISTEND (5)
Marguerite’s gaze rested for an instant on the brilliant, silvery waters; and as she gazed, her heart, which had been numb with pain for all these hours, seemed to soften and distend, and her eyes filled with hot tears: not three miles away, with white sails set, a graceful schooner lay in wait.
Tired, the neck Droops downwards: smoking sweat bedews the limbs: Dry from the squalid mouth protrudes the tongue, Hoarse, raucous panting issues from their chests; Their flanks distend: and every curb is dry With bloody foam; the ruthless sword alone Could move them onward, powerless even then To charge; but giving to the hostile dart A nearer victim.
These straws, because the book has no stomach to digest them, and no one takes them out, first distend the book from its wonted closing, and at length, being carelessly abandoned to oblivion, go to decay.
When my moose-meat spluttered rowdily in the frying-pan, I noticed old Ebbits's nostrils twitch and distend as he caught the food-scent.
Stalked ever such figure of fun For monarch in great-grin pantomime? See now the heart dwindle, the frame distend; The soul to its anchorite cavern retreat, From a life that reeks of the rotted end; While he—is he pictureable? replete, Gourd-like swells of the rank of the soil, Hollow, more hollow at core.
Quotes with DISTEND (2)
A writer flirts with schizophrenia, nurtures synesthesia, and embraces obsessive-compulsive disorder. Your art feeds on you, your soul, and, yes, to a degree, your sanity. Writing novels worth reading will bugger up your mind, jeopardize your relationships, and distend your life. You have been warned.
I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out, or at best is jumbled up with a lot of other things, so that he has a difficulty in laying his hands upon it. Now the skillful workman is very careful indeed as to what he takes into his brain-attic. He will have …
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Appears in: Boston Globe, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 10 times in crossword archives (1961–2018).