distended wineskins. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : the distended nostrils of the terrified horse. ,distended wineskins; the distended arteries of his neck. From Dictionary.com.
Verb (used with object), verb (used without object) : Habitual overeating had distended his stomach. ,The sea distended about them. From Dictionary.com.
Needle-like tools used to drain distended bladders are unnerving. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-07-01] Reference
They sang in her ears, they distended her nostrils. From Wordnik.com. [The Bill-Toppers] Reference
The girl pointed significantly to his distended pockets. From Wordnik.com. [The Hermit of Far End] Reference
T. Convolutions of the small intestines distended with air. From Wordnik.com. [Surgical Anatomy] Reference
She has a distended stomach and the tube is properly positioned. From Wordnik.com. [We Have Lost Our Humanity] Reference
"He had a distended belly, with skinny arms and legs," she says. From Wordnik.com. [Waiter, Please Hold the Wheat] Reference
We are distracted and distended and scurrying to make ends meet. From Wordnik.com. [Rob Densen: Time to Have an Impact] Reference
The hiss of the gas was heard, and the bag distended still more. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Swift in the City of Gold, or, Marvelous Adventures Underground] Reference
Expelled or liberated from a kid's distended shelf-placed farm, . From Wordnik.com. [on the deck] Reference
He had widely distended nostrils and his mouth drawn back over huge teeth. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Harlowe's Senior Year at High School] Reference
The gas forms quickly and the distended wall is highly elastic and resonant. From Wordnik.com. [Common Diseases of Farm Animals] Reference
In spite of his fish-distended anatomy, the Wildcat shrivelled to boy's size. From Wordnik.com. [Lady Luck] Reference
It should be slowly sipped, so that the stomach may not be uncomfortably distended. From Wordnik.com. [Intestinal Ills Chronic Constipation, Indigestion, Autogenetic Poisons, Diarrhea, Piles, Etc. Also Auto-Infection, Auto-Intoxication, Anemia, Emaciation, Etc. Due to Proctitis and Colitis] Reference
The ears are pinned in place and their bases distended by tow pressed in with stuffers. From Wordnik.com. [Home Taxidermy for Pleasure and Profit A Guide for Those Who Wish to Prepare and Mount Animals, Birds, Fish, Reptiles, etc., for Home, Den, or Office Decoration] Reference
And the mottled purple of the distended veins and capillaries did little to improve his looks. From Wordnik.com. [Anchorite] Reference
Thus the milk is preternaturally accumulated, and the udder and nipples become greatly distended. From Wordnik.com. [The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)] Reference
O will be obliterated; yet will the vessel continue sufficiently distended above the valve (O, G). From Wordnik.com. [The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)] Reference
Over the decades Washington so distended Wall Street with implicitly subsidized debt that it burst. From Wordnik.com. [Surveying The Wreckage] Reference
His eyes were distended to their fullest width, as if with horror at what they saw in front of them. From Wordnik.com. [The Beetle] Reference
Still, no one saw her, since her jaw was both distended and collapsed and her eyes sunken in their sockets. From Wordnik.com. [The Color of Silence is Radium Green] Reference
Frequently also this condition is associated with fasciation, or, at least, with a distended or dilated state. From Wordnik.com. [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference
As long as the wind distended his sail, and bore the boat onward, he cared not whether the tide favored or opposed. From Wordnik.com. [Lost in the Fog] Reference
The fiery animal, with distended veins and quivering nostrils, snorted violently, cavorted sidewise, and tried to run. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
She listened with distended ears, and a shudder shook her whole body as she heard suddenly the distant barking of a dog. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The fourteenth of March, a woman died of puerperal fever at the Lariboisiere hospital; the abdomen was distended before death. From Wordnik.com. [The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)] Reference
"She's got a distended stomach; the internist had to put down a tube to relieve the pressure," the nurse added, sensing my puzzlement. From Wordnik.com. [We Have Lost Our Humanity] Reference
I gorged on massive amounts of food until my belly was so distended I was unable to get out of bed to go to class at the local college. From Wordnik.com. [Consumed by Guilt, I Just Stopped Eating] Reference
The balloon looks like a distended variant of his tongue made from white sausage or maybe blank paper in the space on which he is drawn. From Wordnik.com. [Word Balloon] Reference
Is this an issue you face — that people do not really get the message until they see babies with distended bellies on their television screens?. From Wordnik.com. [Hand to Mouth] Reference
A few feet away, a coyote with an already distended belly gorged itself on a second bison, while dozens of ravens zipped in for occasional morsels. From Wordnik.com. [A National Park Cries Wolf] Reference
The music distended with the colors of the stage lights and, high, I thought of a friend of a friend named Abby whom I'd met in Maryland when I was in college. From Wordnik.com. [What is it about animals?] Reference
The whole system is built on phantom money, distended credit, credit cards wielded by the multitude that look at their balances and try to forget the minus sign. From Wordnik.com. [Excerpt from The Vicious Circulation of Dr Catastrope] Reference
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