dilate
verb (used with object)
to make wider or larger; cause to expand.
has dilated
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present perfectof dilate (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Evie Green, from Middlesbrough, has dilated cardiomyopathy and is currently in Newcastle's Freeman Hospital.
From BBC ● Dec. 22, 2023
Time has dilated to the point that I no longer know where things stand relative to one another.
From Slate ● Mar. 21, 2017
More than imperial, Star Wars is cosmological: it has dilated to fill up what Lucasfilm calls an “expanded universe”.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 22, 2015
With 70,000 rounds annually since the late 1970s, the combination of explosion shots and wind-blown sand has dilated bunker faces as much as five feet above some greens.
From Golf Digest ● Jun. 22, 2010
He has dilated on the sufferings, on the abject poverty, of this ill-fated woman, the last of an illustrious race.
From Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 4 by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay
