- bloated, distended, puffed, puffy, swollen, tumescent, tumid, turgid - abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas; "hungry children with bloated stomachs"; "he had a grossly distended stomach"; "eyes with puffed (or puffy) lids"; "swollen hands"; "tumescent tissue"; "puffy tumid flesh"
Antonym: healthy (indirect, via unhealthy)
- distended, swollen - abnormally expanded or increased in size; (`swollen' is sometimes used in combination); "distended wineskins"; "the need to clean out swollen inventories"; "the raisins were plump and soft and swollen from being soaked"; "huge blood-swollen mosquitoes"
Antonym: contracted (indirect, via expanded)
- dilate, distend - become wider; "His pupils were dilated"
--1 is one way to widen
Sample sentences:Derived forms: noun distention2, noun distension2, noun distension1
Something ----s
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- distend - cause to expand as it by internal pressure; "The gas distended the animal's body"
--2 is one way to bloat
Sample sentence:Derived form: noun distention2
Something ----s something
- distend - swell from or as if from internal pressure; "The distended bellies of the starving cows"
--3 is one way to swell, swell up, intumesce, tumefy, tumesce
Sample sentence:Derived forms: noun distension2, noun distension1, noun distention2
Did his feet distend?