[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

distend \distend"\, v. t. imp.  p. p. distended; p. pr. 
   vb. n. distending. l. distendere, distentum, distensum;
   dis- + tendere to stretch, stretch out: cf. f. distendre to
   distend, d'etendre to unbend. see tend, and cf.
   detent.
   1. to extend in some one direction; to lengthen out; to
      stretch. r.
      1913 webster

            but say, what mean those colored streaks in heaven
            distended as the brow of god appeased? --milton.
      1913 webster

   2. to stretch out or extend in all directions; to dilate; to
      enlarge, as by elasticity of parts; to inflate so as to
      produce tension; to cause to swell; as, to distend a
      bladder, the stomach, etc.
      1913 webster

            the warmth distends the chinks.       --dryden.

   syn: to dilate; expand; enlarge; swell; inflate.
        1913 webster
see also:
distended distending tend detent 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

distended
     adj 1: abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas; "hungry
            children with bloated stomachs"; "he had a grossly
            distended stomach"; "eyes with puffed or puffy
            lids"; "swollen hands"; "tumescent tissue"; "puffy
            tumid flesh" syn: bloated, puffed, puffy, swollen,
             tumescent, tumid, turgid
     2: abnormally expanded or increased in size; `swollen' is
        sometimes used in combination; "distended wineskins";
        "the need to clean out swollen inventories"; "the raisins
        were plump and soft and swollen from being soaked"; "huge
        blood-swollen mosquitoes" syn: swollen
see also:
bloated puffed puffy swollen tumescent tumid 
turgid 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

127 moby thesaurus words for "distended":
   adipose, bagging, baggy, ballooning, beefy, bellying, big-bellied,
   billowing, billowy, bloated, blown up, blowzy, bosomy, brawny,
   bulbose, bulbous, bulging, bumped, bumpy, bunched, bunchy, burly,
   bursting, buxom, choked, chubby, chunky, congested, corpulent,
   crammed, crowded, dilated, drenched, dropsical, dumpy, edematous,
   enchymatous, fat, fattish, filled to overflowing, flatulent,
   fleshy, full, gassy, glutted, gorged, gross, heavyset, hefty,
   hillocky, hippy, hummocky, hyperemic, imposing, in spate,
   incrassate, inflated, jam-packed, jammed, lusty, meaty, moutonnee,
   obese, overblown, overburdened, overcharged, overfed, overflowing,
   overfraught, overfreighted, overfull, overladen, overloaded,
   overstocked, overstuffed, oversupplied, overweight, overweighted,
   packed, paunchy, plethoric, plump, pneumatic, podgy, portly,
   potbellied, pouching, pudgy, puffed up, puffy, pursy,
   ready to burst, roly-poly, rotund, rounded, running over, satiated,
   saturated, soaked, square, squat, squatty, stalwart, stocky, stout,
   strapping, stuffed, stuffed up, supercharged, supersaturated,
   surcharged, surfeited, swelled, swelling, swollen, thick-bodied,
   thickset, top-heavy, tubby, tumid, turgid, ventose, verrucated,
   verrucose, warty, well-fed, windy

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