See dilate in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"1": "en",
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{
"args": {
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"2": "la",
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"t": "I spread out"
},
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}
],
"etymology_text": "From Middle English dilaten, from Old French dilater, from Latin dīlātō (“I spread out”), from di- (variant of dis-) + lātus (“wide”).",
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"form": "dilates",
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"singular",
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},
{
"form": "dilating",
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"present"
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"English transitive verbs"
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"text": "The eye doctor put drops in my eye to dilate the pupil so he could see the nerve better.",
"type": "example"
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"To enlarge; to make bigger."
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"(transitive) To enlarge; to make bigger."
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{
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"word": "contract"
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"English terms with usage examples"
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"examples": [
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"text": "His heart dilates and glories in his strength.",
"type": "example"
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"To become wider or larger; to expand."
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"(intransitive) To become wider or larger; to expand."
],
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},
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"categories": [
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"English terms with quotations",
"English transitive verbs",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
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"ref": "c. 1594 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Comedie of Errors”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:",
"text": "Do me the favour to dilate at full / What hath befallen of them and thee till now.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1810, George Crabbe, The Borough:",
"text": "But still they on their ancient joys dilate.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2024 October 24, Judith Shulevitz, “Michel Houellebecq Has Some Fresh Predictions. Be Afraid.”, in The Atlantic:",
"text": "Houellebecq’s men[…] dilate lovingly upon the makes and models of cars and appliances, and the subsidiary brands of hospitality and conglomerates.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To speak largely and copiously; to dwell in narration; to enlarge; with \"on\" or \"upon\"."
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[
"transitive",
"transitive"
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[
"intransitive",
"intransitive"
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],
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"(transitive, intransitive) To speak largely and copiously; to dwell in narration; to enlarge; with \"on\" or \"upon\"."
],
"tags": [
"intransitive",
"transitive"
]
},
{
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"English intransitive verbs",
"English terms with quotations",
"English transitive verbs",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned",
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],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1896, The Chicago Medical Recorder, page 62:",
"text": "An experimenter in New York has recently advocated what he is pleased to call temporary forcible dilatation of the trachea in the treatment of membranous croup, his idea being to introduce into the trachea a dilator and to forcibly dilate, every few hours if need be, and he reports favorable results.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1911, Abraham Leo Wolbarst, Gonorrhea in the Male: A Practical Guide to Its Treatment, page 148:",
"text": "In very tight and obstinate stricture I sometimes dilate every day, but as soon as it has been stretched up to 23 or 24, I dilate every other day, or at greater intervals, keeping the instrument in place several minutes.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2010, Kehinde Adeola Ayeni, Feasts of Phantoms, Fisher King Press, →ISBN, page 148:",
"text": "He gave her some of the dilators he used to dilate her vagina shortly after the surgery and encouraged her to do it frequently.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2012, Wolf Eicher, Götz Kockott, Sexology, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN:",
"text": "It is important to realize that a number of these women do not want to have their vaginismus treated but only to achieve pregnancy. […] The use of hard plastic rods with increasing diameters, a sort of pseudopenis, can be useful, provided it is explained to the woman that these rods are not used to dilate her vagina but are a means of training the relaxation of her pelvic muscles and of getting these muscles under control.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
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"To use a dilator to widen (something, such as a vagina)."
],
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"medicine",
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"transitive",
"transitive"
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"intransitive",
"intransitive"
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[
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[
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],
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"(medicine, transitive, intransitive) To use a dilator to widen (something, such as a vagina)."
],
"tags": [
"intransitive",
"transitive"
],
"topics": [
"medicine",
"sciences"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
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"ipa": "/daɪˈleɪt/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-eɪt"
},
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"translations": [
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "razširjavam",
"sense": "to enlarge; to make bigger",
"word": "разширявам"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "raztvarjam",
"sense": "to enlarge; to make bigger",
"word": "разтварям"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "to enlarge; to make bigger",
"word": "dilatar"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to enlarge; to make bigger",
"word": "dilateren"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to enlarge; to make bigger",
"word": "laajentaa"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to enlarge; to make bigger",
"word": "dilater"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "to enlarge; to make bigger",
"word": "dilatar"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to enlarge; to make bigger",
"word": "dilatieren"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to enlarge; to make bigger",
"word": "weiten"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to enlarge; to make bigger",
"word": "vergrößern"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to enlarge; to make bigger",
"word": "erweitern"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to enlarge; to make bigger",
"word": "dehnen"
},
{
"code": "io",
"lang": "Ido",
"sense": "to enlarge; to make bigger",
"word": "dilatar"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to enlarge; to make bigger",
"word": "dilatare"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to enlarge; to make bigger",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "rozszerzać"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to enlarge; to make bigger",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "rozszerzyć"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to enlarge; to make bigger",
"word": "dilatar"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to enlarge; to make bigger",
"word": "dilata"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "rasširjátʹ",
"sense": "to enlarge; to make bigger",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "расширя́ть"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "rasšíritʹ",
"sense": "to enlarge; to make bigger",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "расши́рить"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "uvelíčivatʹ",
"sense": "to enlarge; to make bigger",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "увели́чивать"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "uvelíčitʹ",
"sense": "to enlarge; to make bigger",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "увели́чить"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to enlarge; to make bigger",
"word": "dilatar"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "to enlarge; to make bigger",
"word": "büyültmek"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "razširjavam se",
"sense": "to become wider or larger; to expand",
"word": "разширявам се"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "razprostiram se",
"sense": "to become wider or larger; to expand",
"word": "разпростирам се"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "to become wider or larger; to expand",
"word": "dilatar-se"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to become wider or larger; to expand",
"tags": [
"plural"
],
"word": "uitzetten"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to become wider or larger; to expand",
"word": "laajentua"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to become wider or larger; to expand",
"word": "laajeta"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to become wider or larger; to expand",
"word": "se dilater"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "to become wider or larger; to expand",
"word": "dilatarse"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to become wider or larger; to expand",
"word": "sich weiten"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to become wider or larger; to expand",
"word": "ausdehnen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to become wider or larger; to expand",
"word": "weiten"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to become wider or larger; to expand",
"word": "vergrößern"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to become wider or larger; to expand",
"word": "dehnen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to become wider or larger; to expand",
"word": "dilatieren"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to become wider or larger; to expand",
"word": "dilatarsi"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to become wider or larger; to expand",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "rozszerzać się"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to become wider or larger; to expand",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "rozszerzyć się"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to become wider or larger; to expand",
"word": "expandir"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "rasširjátʹsja",
"sense": "to become wider or larger; to expand",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "расширя́ться"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "rasšíritʹsja",
"sense": "to become wider or larger; to expand",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "расши́риться"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "uvelíčivatʹsja",
"sense": "to become wider or larger; to expand",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "увели́чиваться"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "uvelíčitʹsja",
"sense": "to become wider or larger; to expand",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "увели́читься"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to become wider or larger; to expand",
"word": "dilatarse"
}
],
"word": "dilate"
}
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