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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
distend .
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Examples
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It swells, distends, turns colors — first a greenish-grey, then a curious violet.
Death's Noisy Herald gerard varni 2011
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At one level this is entertaining stuff, but it distracts, distorts, and distends our politics.
Robert J. Spitzer: "I'm Not a Candidate, But I Play One on TV" Robert J. Spitzer 2011
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The opening takes a simple so-la-ti from the scale and distends the first note into another octave (I'm ignoring the grace note, which doesn't always appear in other statements of the theme):
Archive 2008-02-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2008
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The opening takes a simple so-la-ti from the scale and distends the first note into another octave (I'm ignoring the grace note, which doesn't always appear in other statements of the theme):
The illegitimate nephew of Napoleon Matthew Guerrieri 2008
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Underneath a coat of sparse, wiry white hair, its belly distends almost to its knobby knees.
Zombies vs. Unicorns Justine Larbalestier 2010
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According to the government, alcohol expands your liver, distends your pancreas and turns your brainstem to jelly.
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It has disappeared; the open spots change place, the sombre folds advance and retreat, a sort of wind from the sepulchre pushes forward, hurls back, distends, and disperses these tragic multitudes.
Les Miserables 2008
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In a sensual whisper, she asked, “And how does this feel when it hardens and distends?”
Playing Easy to Get Sherrilyn Kenyon 2006
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In a sensual whisper, she asked, “And how does this feel when it hardens and distends?”
Playing Easy to Get Sherrilyn Kenyon 2006
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In a sensual whisper, she asked, “And how does this feel when it hardens and distends?”
Playing Easy to Get Sherrilyn Kenyon 2006
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