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Definition: Distended |
DistendedAdjective1. 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". 2. 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". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "distended" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1663. (references) |
Synonyms: DistendedSynonyms: bloated (adj), puffed (adj), puffy (adj), swollen (adj), tumescent (adj), tumid (adj), turgid (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Expansion | Adjective: expanded; Verb: larger; (large; swollen; expansive; wide open, wide spread; flabelliform; overgrown, exaggerated, bloated, fat, turgid, tumid, hypertrophied, dropsical; pot bellied, swag bellied; edematous, oedematous, obese, puffy, pursy, blowzy, bigswoln, distended; patulous; bulbous; (convex); full blown, full grown, full formed; big; abdominous, enchymatous, rhipidate; tumefacient, tumefying. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Distended |
| English words defined with "distended": bloated ♦ cavernous, Cavernous body ♦ distend, distensible, Distensive, Distent ♦ erectile ♦ Fyke ♦ Honey ant ♦ puffed, puffy ♦ swollen ♦ tumescent, tumid, Tumored, turgid ♦ Ventriculous, Vesicular emphysema ♦ white ant. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "distended": Prune Belly Syndrome ♦ scimitar syndrome, sycophant. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "distended": Tumored. (references) |
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 | Child of agricultural day laborer living near Tullahassee, Oklahoma. Notice the distended stomach, which is indicative of malnutrution and unbalanced diet with too many starchy foods. This condition is prevalent throughout the tenant farmer and day labori. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Child of tenant farmer. Notice distended stomach, indicative of malnutrition. Near Warner, Oklahoma. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Health | High-fiber diets keep the colon mildly distended, which may help to prevent spasms from developing. (references) | |
The excessive muscle growth may also block blood vessels in the lung, causing them to become distended with blood and even to rupture. (references) | ||
Infants with Tay-Sachs disease appear to develop normally for the first few months of life. Then, as nerve cells become distended with fatty material, a relentless deterioration of mental and physical abilities occurs. (references) | ||
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | SYCOPHANT, n. One who approaches Greatness on his belly so that he may not be commanded to turn and be kicked. He is sometimes an editor. As the lean leech, its victim found, is pleased To fix itself upon a part diseased Till, its black hide distended with bad blood, It drops to die of surfeit in the mud, So the base sycophant with joy descries His neighbor's weak spot and his mouth applies, Gorges and prospers like the leech, although, Unlike that reptile, he will not let go. Gelasma, if it paid you to devote Your talent to the service of a goat, Showing by forceful logic that its beard Is more than Aaron's fit to be revered; If to the task of honoring its smell Profit had prompted you, and love as well, The world would benefit at last by you And wealthy malefactors weep anew -- Your favor for a moment's space denied And to the nobler object turned aside. Is't not enough that thrifty millionaires Who loot in freight and spoliate in fares, Or, cursed with consciences that bid them fly To safer villainies of darker dye, Forswearing robbery and fain, instead, To steal (they call it "cornering") our bread May see you groveling their boots to lick And begging for the favor of a kick? Still must you follow to the bitter end Your sycophantic disposition's trend, And in your eagerness to please the rich Hunt hungry sinners to their final ditch? In Morgan's praise you smite the sounding wire, And sing hosannas to great Havemeyher! What's Satan done that him you should eschew? He too is reeking rich -- deducting you. |
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| "Distended" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 41.18% of the time. "Distended" is used about 34 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 41.18% | 14 | 93,893 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 32.35% | 11 | 106,044 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 26.47% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Total | 100.00% | 34 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "distended": distended swollen. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "distended": hunger-distended. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
distended abdomen | 32 |
distended stomach | 31 |
bladder distended | 6 |
distended | 5 |
belly distended | 5 |
clitoris distended | 5 |
colon distended | 4 |
bowel distended | 4 |
distended neck vein | 3 |
bladder distended gall | 2 |
distended nipples | 2 |
abdomen distended odor pain quadrant right upper | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "distended"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | منتفخ (baggy, bloat, bloated, blown, bulging, bulgy, full, inflated, overblown, puffed, puffy, swelling, swollen). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 扩 (Dilation, Distend, Distending). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | laajentunut (dilated, enlarged). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | vésicule (the distended peridium of the aecidium of rusts), boursouflure (the distended peridium of the aecidium of rusts). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | dehnte, ausgedehnt (extended, extensive, far reaching, lengthy, overstretched, prolonged, spacious, spaciously, stretched, vast, wide). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | Κυστοειδής καρποφορία σκωρίασης (blister, the distended peridium of the aecidium of rusts). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | צב" (engorged, swollen). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | táguló (expansive), kitágult, feszülő (expansive), felpuffadt (flown, puffed-up), felfúvódott (bulging, flatulent), felfújt (blown, chuff, chuffed, exaggerated, inflated, overblown, pudding, puffed, puffed-up, soufflé). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | buncit (pregnant, recent). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | bolla (bead, bill, blister, bubble, bull, note). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | sheeynt magh (attenuated), attit (bulging, enlarged, swollen, varicose). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | istendedday ampola (ampoule, ampule, bubble). (various references) balonat (swollen). (various references) vesícula (air bladder, bladder, gallbladder, vesicle). (various references) rhwth (gaping). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | tumidi. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Distended" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: desended, detrended, disstended, distened, distented. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "distended" (pronounced di'ste"ndud) |
| 7 | -s t e" n d u d | extended, overextended. |
| 6 | -t e" n d u d | attended, contended, intended, pretended, tended, unattended, unintended. |
| 5 | -e" n d u d | amended, appended, apprehended, ascended, befriended, bended, blended, commended, comprehended, defended, depended, descended, ended, expended, fended, mended, offended, recommended, splendid, suspended, transcended, trended, unamended. |
| 4 | -n d u d | abounded, astounded, backhanded, banded, blinded, bonded, bounded, branded, candid, commanded, compounded, confounded, corresponded, demanded, disbanded, dumbfounded, evenhanded, expanded, expounded, founded, funded, grounded, handed, hounded, impounded, landed, masterminded, minded, overfunded, pounded, propounded, rebounded, refunded, remanded, reminded, reprimanded, rescinded, responded, rounded, sanded, seconded, sounded, stranded, surrounded, unbounded, unbranded, underfunded, underhanded, unfounded, unfunded, winded, wounded. |
| 3 | -d u d | abided, acceded, accorded, added, afforded, aided, alluded, applauded, avoided, awarded, barricaded, beaded, bearded, bedded, beheaded, bladed, blindfolded, blindsided, blockaded, blooded, boarded, bombarded, braided, breaded, broadsided, brooded, carded, cascaded, ceded, chided, clouded, coded, coincided, collided, colluded, conceded, concluded, confided, corded, corroded, crowded, decided, deeded, defrauded, degraded, deluded, denuded, derided, discarded, disregarded, dissuaded, divided, downgraded, downloaded, dreaded, eluded, embedded, encoded, enshrouded, eroded, evaded, exceeded, excluded, exploded, extruded, exuded, faded, feuded, fielded, flooded, folded, forwarded, gilded, glided, goaded, graded, guarded, guided, hardheaded, headed, heeded, heralded, herded, hoarded, homesteaded, hooded, imbedded, impeded, imploded, included, interceded, intruded, invaded, jaded, kidded, larded, lauded, leaded, lightheaded, loaded, lopsided, melded, misguided, molded, muddleheaded, needed, nodded, outmoded, overcrowded, overloaded, padded, paraded, persuaded, pervaded, pleaded, plodded, preceded, precluded, prerecorded, presided, prided, proceeded, prodded, provided, raided, railroaded, receded, recorded, redheaded, regarded, reloaded, remolded, resided, retarded, rewarded, safeguarded, scalded, scolded, seceded, secluded, seeded, serenaded, shaded, shepherded, shielded, shredded, shrouded, sided, skidded, sordid, spearheaded, speeded, stampeded, studded, subdivided, subsided, succeeded, superseded, threaded, traded, unaided, undecided, undivided, unexploded, unfolded, unguarded, unheeded, unheralded, unimpeded, unleaded, unloaded, unneeded, unrecorded, upbraided, upgraded, voided, wadded, waded, warded, wedded, weeded, welded, wielded, wooded, worded, wrongheaded, yielded. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-d-d-e-e-i-n-s-t" | |
-1 letter: destined. | |
-2 letters: destine, distend, endited, endites, snedded, teddies. | |
-3 letters: denied, denies, dented, dienes, dieted, dinted, eddied, eddies, edited, endite, indeed, nested, seined, sended, tedded, teinds, tended, tensed. | |
-4 letters: deeds, deets, deist, denes, dense, dents, didst, diene, diets, dined, dines, dints, dites, edits, ended, inset, needs, neist, nided, nides, nites, seine, sente, senti, sided, sited. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-d-d-e-e-i-n-s-t" | |
+3 letters: understudied. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 69 73 74 65 6E 64 65 64 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. .. ... - . -. -.. . -.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01101001 01110011 01110100 01100101 01101110 01100100 01100101 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D i s t e n d e d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0069 0073 0074 0065 006E 0064 0065 0064 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)387585867180707170 |
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