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Tumored :: Tumored (a.) Distended; swelled.

Inflate :: Inflate (v. t.) To swell or distend with air or gas; to dilate; to expand; to enlarge; as, to inflate a bladder; to inflate the lungs..

Plumper :: Plumper (n.) One who, or that which, plumps or swells out something else; hence, something carried in the mouth to distend the cheeks..

Distensible :: Distensible (a.) Capable of being distended or dilated.

Blown :: Blown (p. p. & a.) Swollen; inflated; distended; puffed up, as cattle when gorged with green food which develops gas..

Expand :: Expand (v. i.) To become widely opened, spread apart, dilated, distended, or enlarged; as, flowers expand in the spring; metals expand by heat; the heart expands with joy..

Distention :: Distention (n.) The act of distending; the act of stretching in breadth or in all directions; the state of being Distended; as, the distention of the lungs..

Turgid :: Turgid (a.) Distended beyond the natural state by some internal agent or expansive force; swelled; swollen; bloated; inflated; tumid; -- especially applied to an enlarged part of the body; as, a turgid limb; turgid fruit..

Inflate :: Inflate (v. i.) To expand; to fill; to distend.

Inflated :: Inflated (a.) Filled, as with air or gas; blown up; distended; as, a balloon inflated with gas..

Distensive :: Distensive (a.) Distending, or capable of being distended..

Distending :: Distending (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disten.

Balloon Fish :: Balloon fish () A fish of the genus Diodon or the genus Tetraodon, having the power of distending its body by taking air or water into its dilatable esophagus. See Globefish, and Bur fish..

Full-blown :: Full-blown (a.) Fully distended with wind, as a sail..

Bladder :: Bladder (n.) A distended, membranaceous pericarp..

Distent :: Distent (a.) Distended.

Distention :: Distention (n.) Breadth; extent or space occupied by the thing distended.

Dilate :: Dilate (v. t.) To expand; to distend; to enlarge or extend in all directions; to swell; -- opposed to contract; as, the air dilates the lungs; air is dilated by increase of heat..

Intend :: Intend (v. t.) To stretch' to extend; to distend.

Inflated :: Inflated (a.) Hollow and distended, as a perianth, corolla, nectary, or pericarp..

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