All 3 Uses of
dilate
in
Jane Eyre
- Pain, shame, ire, impatience, disgust, detestation, seemed momentarily to hold a quivering conflict in the large pupil dilating under his ebon eyebrow.†
Chpt 15 *
- His voice and hand quivered: his large nostrils dilated; his eye blazed: still I dared to speak.†
Chpt 27
- Often, of an evening, when he sat at the window, his desk and papers before him, he would cease reading or writing, rest his chin on his hand, and deliver himself up to I know not what course of thought; but that it was perturbed and exciting might be seen in the frequent flash and changeful dilation of his eye.†
Chpt 30
Definition:
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(dilate as in: dilated eyes) become wider (bigger)