distention

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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Definition

From Middle French distension.

But the distention evoked a long wail which was at once drowned in another one. — Penrod, Booth Tarkington
A slight headache, accompanied with a sensation of fulness or distention about the wrists, the ankles, and the throat, was nearly all of which I had now to complain. — The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition: Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes, Edgar Allan Poe
And when, breathless, we thought to expire by a convulsive distention of all our feelings, and only a slender tie bound us to our present existence, we now hear and see only the hero wounded to death and still not dying, with his despairing cry: "Longing! — The Birth of Tragedy; or, Hellenism and Pessimism, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

dilatation, distension

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