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dilate
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., from Old French dilater , from Late Latin dilatare "make wider, enlarge," from dis- "apart" (see dis- ) + latus "wide" (see latitude ). Related: Dilated ; dilating .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context transitive English) To enlarge; to make bigger. 2 (context intransitive English) To become wider or larger; to expand. 3 (context ambitransitive English) To speak largely and copiously; to dwell in narration; to enlarge; with "on" or "upon". ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dilate \Di*late"\, a. Extensive; expanded. [Obs.] --B. Jonson.
Usage examples of dilate.
She then began to dilate on the marvellous properties of the balm, on its probable success in a town like London, and on the benefits which would accrue to myself, for of course I should share in the profits.
Moffat looked into the dilated eyes a full second before he pulled himself loose.
Another pressure door dilated, and a big balding middle-aged man stepped out, with small alert eyes on either side of a long sharp nose.
Presently, his door dilated and Tammy appeared, a smirk on her face, casually holding a slave-remote in place of the stinger.
At the thought that her cousin could believe her guilty of such treachery, her grave eyes dilated, and fixed themselves on the flaming countenance of Faith.
Lois, as if they feared she would vanish from before their very eyes: she, white, trembling, standing quite still in the tight grasp of strange, fierce men, her dilated eyes only wandering a little now and then in search of some pitiful face---some pitiful face that, among all those hundreds, was not to be found.
If any heart could have been touched in that cruel multitude, they would have felt some compassion for the sweet young face of the English girl, trying so meekly to do all that she was ordered, her face quite white, yet so full of sad gentleness, her grey eyes, a little dilated by the very solemnity of her position, fixed with the intent look of innocent maidenhood on the stem face of justice Hathorn.
These tumors or dilated blood vessels of the rectum are called hemorrhoids or piles.
In September the os dilated until the first and second fingers could be passed directly to the head.
The abdomen was distended with tympanites and the rectum much dilated with accumulated feces.
When summoned, the doctor found that she had severe lumbar pains, and that the os was dilated to the size of a half-dollar.
The cervix was only slightly dilated, and, as no pains were felt, it was agreed to wait.
The pupils were dilated, there were dimness of vision, confusion of thought, and extreme prostration.
The cavities of the heart were dilated, the walls thin and in advanced stage of fatty degeneration.
Two fistulae were found in the right loin, and were laid open into one canal, which, after partial resection of the 12th rib, was dilated and traced inward and upward, and found to be in connection with the stomach.