|part of speech: ||transitive verb & intransitive verb
||distended, distending, distends ||to swell or cause to swell
from, or as if from, internal pressure; balloon. The child's
abdomen was distended, which is a sure sign of severe
malnutrition. - balloon, bloat, puff, swell, tumefy - constrict,
deflate - similar words: - bag, blow up, bulge, dilate, enlarge,
expand, inflate, protrude ||bag, belly, billow, bulge, enlarge,
fill, inflate, magnify, stretch