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dilate
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dilate as in:  dilated eyes

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    They are measuring dilation in my arteries.
    dilation = widening
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    "But these pupils are dilated," she said.  (source)
    dilated = bigger than normal
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    "The pupils of his little eyes are not dilated," said Dr. Meescham.  (source)
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    Her thin little body trembled from head to foot; her face flushed and her eyes dilated until they were almost black; she clasped her hands tightly and said in an imploring voice: ...  (source)
    dilated = became bigger
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    Of all earthly pleasures, Laila's favorite was lying next to Aziza, her baby's face so close that she could watch her big pupils dilate and shrink.†  (source)
    dilate = become wider (bigger)
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    A.U. thirty-eight is dilating the nostrils.†  (source)
    dilating = becoming wider
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    The room must be reading her heartbeat, her sweat, her pupil dilation.†  (source)
    dilation = widening
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    It sucks and booms and splashes and rumbles; it shifts and dilates and falls over itself; the labyrinth of Saint-Malo has opened onto a portal of sound larger than anything she has ever experienced.†  (source)
    dilates = becomes wider
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    After five years my body became so strong that I could control even the dilations of the pupils inside my irises.†  (source)
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    His pupils had dilated in the lamplight, absorbing the hazel of the iris.†  (source)
    dilated = wider than normal (bigger); or became wider
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    His pupils dilate when he sees me.†  (source)
    dilate = become wider (bigger)
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    Over the phone Dr. Sherman asked them to check whether she was dilating.†  (source)
    dilating = becoming wider
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    Jacobus flicked a penlight in the man's eyes, testing his dilation.†  (source)
    dilation = widening
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