distend
verb (used with or without object)
to expand by stretching, as something hollow or elastic.
is distending
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present progressiveof distend (3rd person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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The average fellow who occasionally complains "I've got gas on my stomach" may indeed be uncomfortable be cause gas is distending some part of his digestive tract.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is distending food, not drink, which forms the large carcase.
From Hints on Horsemanship, to a Nephew and Niece or, Common Sense and Common Errors in Common Riding by George Greenwood
