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"ref": "1835, William Gilmore Simms, The Partisan, Harper, Chapter XIV, page 180",
"text": "Then came the arrowy flight and form of the hurricane itself—its actual bulk—its imbodied power, pressing along through the forest in a gyratory progress, not fifty yards wide, never distending in width, yet capriciously winding from right to left and left to right.",
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"(intransitive) To extend or expand, as from internal pressure; to swell"
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"roman": "raztegljam",
"sense": "to extend or expand",
"word": "разтеглям"
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"sense": "to extend or expand",
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"sense": "to extend or expand",
"word": "膨脹"
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"sense": "to extend or expand",
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"sense": "to extend or expand",
"word": "distendre"
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"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to extend or expand",
"word": "felfúvódik"
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"sense": "to extend or expand",
"word": "felpuffad"
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"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to extend or expand",
"word": "kōnakinaki"
},
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"sense": "to extend or expand",
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"sense": "to extend or expand",
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"sense": "to extend or expand",
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"ref": "1662 Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Dialogue 2)",
"text": "I begin to hate the theater, the feeling wickedly distended by histrionics, all my old gestures, clutchings, tears, and applications. These impure and frail matters are conteined within the angust concave of the Lunar Orb, above which with uninterrupted Series the things Celestial distend themselves."
}
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"To extend; to stretch out; to spread out."
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"(transitive, reflexive, archaic) To extend; to stretch out; to spread out."
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"To cause to swell."
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"(transitive) To cause to swell."
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"sense": "to cause to swell",
"word": "раздувам"
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"_dis1": "3 1 54 41",
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"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "gǔqǐ",
"sense": "to cause to swell",
"word": "鼓起"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 1 54 41",
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"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "tūqǐ",
"sense": "to cause to swell",
"word": "凸起"
},
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"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to cause to swell",
"word": "felfúj"
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{
"_dis1": "3 1 54 41",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to cause to swell",
"word": "whakatetere"
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{
"_dis1": "3 1 54 41",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to cause to swell",
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"sense": "to cause to swell",
"word": "utöka"
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"To cause gravidity."
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"(biology) To cause gravidity."
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"text": "I begin to hate the theater, the feeling wickedly distended by histrionics, all my old gestures, clutchings, tears, and applications. These impure and frail matters are conteined within the angust concave of the Lunar Orb, above which with uninterrupted Series the things Celestial distend themselves."
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"(transitive, reflexive, archaic) To extend; to stretch out; to spread out."
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"To cause to swell."
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"(transitive) To cause to swell."
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"(biology) To cause gravidity."
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"sense": "to extend or expand",
"word": "разтеглям"
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"roman": "razširjavam",
"sense": "to extend or expand",
"word": "разширявам"
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{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "to extend or expand",
"word": "distendre"
},
{
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"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "to extend or expand",
"word": "膨脹"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "péngzhàng",
"sense": "to extend or expand",
"word": "膨胀"
},
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"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to extend or expand",
"word": "distendre"
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{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to extend or expand",
"word": "felfúvódik"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to extend or expand",
"word": "felpuffad"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to extend or expand",
"word": "kōnakinaki"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to extend or expand",
"word": "koeke"
},
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"code": "pl",
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"sense": "to extend or expand",
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"word": "rozdymać się"
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{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to extend or expand",
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"word": "rozdąć się"
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"code": "sv",
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"sense": "to extend or expand",
"word": "svälla"
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "razduvam",
"sense": "to cause to swell",
"word": "раздувам"
},
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"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "gǔqǐ",
"sense": "to cause to swell",
"word": "鼓起"
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{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "tūqǐ",
"sense": "to cause to swell",
"word": "凸起"
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"code": "hu",
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"sense": "to cause to swell",
"word": "felfúj"
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"code": "mi",
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"sense": "to cause to swell",
"word": "whakatetere"
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{
"code": "mi",
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"sense": "to cause to swell",
"word": "koeke"
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"word": "rozdąć"
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"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to cause to swell",
"word": "utöka"
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"word": "distend"
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