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distended

adjective as in swollen

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Which means they’re likely to travel north, leading to significant nausea and vomiting and a very distended or bloated belly.

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In two or three seconds she had become suggestive of an animal, her nostrils distended, the upper lip drawn back from her teeth.

The Countess Lavinia slowly turned her head and fixed her distended eyes on the speaker.

He thought her speech outrageous; his nostrils distended a little and his eyes darkened.

The stomach was much distended, and when I state this fact I am sure it will excite much curiosity as to the reason why.

By way of doing so, he set up a stout fence-rail between his landlord's distended jaws, and went away.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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