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Inflated :: Inflated (a.) Distended or enlarged fictitiously; as, inflated prices, etc..

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..

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..

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

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

Globefish :: Globefish (n.) A plectognath fish of the genera Diodon, Tetrodon, and allied genera. The globefishes can suck in water or air and distend the body to a more or less globular form. Called also porcupine fish, and sea hedgehog. See Diodon..

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

Distend :: Distend (v. t.) To stretch out or extend in all directions; to dilate; to enlarge, as by elasticity of parts; to inflate so as to produce tension; to cause to swell; as, to distend a bladder, the stomach, etc..

Distent :: Distent (a.) Distended.

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

Distend :: Distend (v. t.) To extend in some one direction; to lengthen out; to stretch.

Distended :: Distended (imp. & p. p.) of Disten.

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..

Wind :: Wind (n.) A disease of sheep, in which the intestines are distended with air, or rather affected with a violent inflammation. It occurs immediately after shearing..

Distend :: Distend (v. i.) To become expanded or inflated; to swell.

Heave :: Heave (v. i.) To rise and fall with alternate motions, as the lungs in heavy breathing, as waves in a heavy sea, as ships on the billows, as the earth when broken up by frost, etc.; to swell; to dilate; to expand; to distend; hence, to labor; to struggle..

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

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..

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

Ventriculous :: Ventriculous (a.) Somewhat distended in the middle; ventricular.

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