distended

distended
Synonyms and related words:
adipose, bagging, baggy, ballooning, beefy, bellying, big-bellied, billowing, billowy, bloated, blown up, blowzy, bosomy, brawny, bulbose, bulbous, bulging, bumped, bumpy, bunched, bunchy, burly, bursting, buxom, choked, chubby, chunky, congested, corpulent, crammed, crowded, dilated, drenched, dropsical, dumpy, edematous, enchymatous, fat, fattish, filled to overflowing, flatulent, fleshy, full, gassy, glutted, gorged, gross, heavyset, hefty, hillocky, hippy, hummocky, hyperemic, imposing, in spate, incrassate, inflated, jam-packed, jammed, lusty, meaty, moutonnee, obese, overblown, overburdened, overcharged, overfed, overflowing, overfraught, overfreighted, overfull, overladen, overloaded, overstocked, overstuffed, oversupplied, overweight, overweighted, packed, paunchy, plethoric, plump, pneumatic, podgy, portly, potbellied, pouching, pudgy, puffed up, puffy, pursy, ready to burst, roly-poly, rotund, rounded, running over, satiated, saturated, soaked, square, squat, squatty, stalwart, stocky, stout, strapping, stuffed, stuffed up, supercharged, supersaturated, surcharged, surfeited, swelled, swelling, swollen, thick-bodied, thickset, top-heavy, tubby, tumid, turgid, ventose, verrucated, verrucose, warty, well-fed, windy

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  • distended — index inflated (enlarged) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • distended — [adj] swollen bloated, bulging, enlarged, expanded, inflated, puffed out, puffy, stretched, tumescent, tumid, turgid; concept 485 …   New thesaurus

  • distended — distendedly, adv. distendedness, n. /di sten did/, adj. 1. increased, as in size, volume, etc.; expanded; dilated: the distended nostrils of the terrified horse. 2. swollen, by or as by internal pressure, out of normal size or shape; protuberant …   Universalium

  • Distended — Distend Dis*tend , v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Distended}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Distending}.] [L. distendere, distentum, distensum; dis + tendere to stretch, stretch out: cf. F. distendre to distend, d[ e]tendre to unbend. See {Tend}, and cf. {Detent}.] 1.… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • distended — adj. Distended is used with these nouns: ↑belly …   Collocations dictionary

  • distended — adjective a distended abdomen Syn: swollen, bloated, dilated, engorged, enlarged, inflated, expanded, extended, bulging, protuberant …   Thesaurus of popular words

  • distended — distend ► VERB ▪ swell because of internal pressure. DERIVATIVES distended adjective distensibility noun distensible adjective distension noun. ORIGIN Latin distendere, from tendere to stretch …   English terms dictionary

  • distended swollen — expanded expanded adj. increased in extent or size or bulk or scope. Opposite of {contracted}. [Narrower terms: {blown up, enlarged}; {dilated}; {distended, swollen}; {inflated}] [WordNet 1.5] 2. (Printnig) wider than usual for a particular… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • distended — adjective a) Extended or expanded, as from internal pressure; swollen. b) gravid …   Wiktionary

  • distended — (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a. bloated, swollen, inflated, enlarged, turgid, expanded, bulging, puffed out, ballooned, blown up. ANT.: shriveled, sunken, deflated …   English dictionary for students

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