Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of distending, or the state of being distended; dilatation; a stretching in all directions; inflation: as, the distention of the lungs or stomach.
- noun A stretching in any direction; extension.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of distending; the act of stretching in breadth or in all directions; the state of being Distended.
- noun Breadth; extent or space occupied by the thing distended.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The act of
distending .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the state of being stretched beyond normal dimensions
- noun the act of expanding by pressure from within
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Examples
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The stomach distention is a bitch, but not having to worry about one's next meal for a week is a bonus.
Keep A Tighter Grip On Your Wallet In Loud Restaurants | Lifehacker Australia 2010
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Sharp division of the gall-bladder causes no pain, but distention, which is the gall-bladder's most common pathologic state, produces pain.
The Origin and Nature of the Emotions: Miscellaneous Papers 1915
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This sensation reaches its climax with the expulsion of the semen into the urethra and the consequent feeling of distention, which is instantly followed by the rhythmic peristaltic contractions of the urethral muscles which mark the climax of the orgasm.
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 5 Erotic Symbolism; The Mechanism of Detumescence; The Psychic State in Pregnancy Havelock Ellis 1899
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Snyder justified the secrecy because Eisenhower, since 1945, had suffered from “recurrent attacks of lower abdominal pain and distention.”
Eisenhower 1956 David A. Nichols 2011
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The use of water to produce suffocation was less common than the use of water to produce stomach distention to my knowledge.
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He had stretched the elasticity out of them, and with their distention had passed his endurance.
A PIECE OF STEAK 2010
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He had stretched the elasticity out of them, and with their distention had passed his endurance.
A PIECE OF STEAK 2010
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Snyder justified the secrecy because Eisenhower, since 1945, had suffered from “recurrent attacks of lower abdominal pain and distention.”
Eisenhower 1956 David A. Nichols 2011
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It is this obsession with, distention and corruption of, beauty that gives rise to the imagined master races of the KKK, the Nazis, the Khmer Rouge, the Hutu Akazu, the Taliban.
G. Roger Denson: The Dark Side of Beauty: The Mosque As "Terror Cell" G. Roger Denson 2010
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For what breathes the oxygenating energy of the spirit's revival across the transformation from "— r embers" to "r (em) embers" is a phonemic distention not unlike that which, in
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