Both Uses of
dilate
in
Great Expectations
- This dilated until it filled the room, and impelled me to take a candle and go in and look at my dreadful burden.†
Chpt 39 *
- But, above all, I knew that there was a constant tendency in all these people,—who, when I was very ill, would present all kinds of extraordinary transformations of the human face, and would be much dilated in size,—above all, I say, I knew that there was an extraordinary tendency in all these people, sooner or later, to settle down into the likeness of Joe.†
Chpt 57
Definition:
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(dilate as in: dilated eyes) become wider (bigger)