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- verb Present participle of
dilate .
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Examples
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In digressing, in dilating, in passing from subject to subject, he appeared to me to float in air, to slide on ice. [
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These vessels respond by dilating, which is the real cause of the pain.
American Yoga Association Beginner’s Manual Fully Revised and Updated Alice Christensen 2010
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These vessels respond by dilating, which is the real cause of the pain.
American Yoga Association Beginner’s Manual Fully Revised and Updated Alice Christensen 2010
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I can't afford 4 hours taken out of my day, so having a laptop to work on while, um, "dilating" will mean I can work as well as, well, not play, but....
Four Pieces of Good News Zoe Brain 2006
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I can't afford 4 hours taken out of my day, so having a laptop to work on while, um, "dilating" will mean I can work as well as, well, not play, but....
Archive 2006-07-01 Zoe Brain 2006
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After Tyra tried to show true empathy by discussing her own inability to control supermodel-farts after a colonoscopy, we all got to learn about "dilating," which is the thing that happens after someone has male-to-female surgery.
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As the days wore on the idea took possession of her more and more completely, but she could only wreak her helpless ill-humour by doing foolish and futile things, such as dilating to Ody upon the imprudence of getting married, and the undesirable qualities of black-looking slips of colleens -- a simple and ingenious expedient for putting him out of conceit with all and any of them; while she assumed towards Theresa a demeanor so glum and repellent that the girl could not attribute it entirely to the irritability caused by rheumatic twinges, and from one of her charitably intentioned visits returned with a disconcerted expression, and a resolve, which she kept, to pay no more.
Strangers at Lisconnel Jane Barlow 1887
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The 1st Law does not (I repeat N-O-T) tell us whether you store excess energy in the form of fat, or bleed it off into the atmosphere by dilating blood vessels next to the skin, sweating, etc.
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It's also good for the heart; it helps produce nitric oxide (not nitrous oxide -- that's laughing gas!) in the arteries, dilating them and reducing blood pressure.
David R. Hamilton, Ph.D.: How Meditation Affects the Gray Matter of the Brain Ph.D. David R. Hamilton 2010
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It's also good for the heart; it helps produce nitric oxide (not nitrous oxide -- that's laughing gas!) in the arteries, dilating them and reducing blood pressure.
David R. Hamilton, Ph.D.: How Meditation Affects the Gray Matter of the Brain Ph.D. David R. Hamilton 2010
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