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to extend — especially the swelling outward of a part of the body; e.g., the stomach
- Jason strained; the veins in the man's throat were distended to the point of bursting.Chapter 15 (53% in)
- China was changing, not fast enough for the West, and certainly it was still a paranoid giant, but withal, thought David Webb, the distended stomachs of children, so prevalent in the China of years ago, were disappearing.Chapter 15 (16% in)
There are no more uses of "distend" in The Bourne Supremacy.
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