Both Uses of
distend
in
The God of Small Things
- Her earlobes had been distended into weighted loops that swung around her neck, her earrings sitting in them like gleeful children in a merry-go-(not all the way)-round.
Chpt 8 *distended = extended
- His legs were already spindly and his taut, distended belly, like his tiny mother's goiter, was completely at odds with the rest of his thin, narrow body and alert face.†
Chpt 14
Definition:
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(distend) to extend -- especially the swelling outward of a part of the body; e.g., the stomach