distent

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/dɪsˈtɛnt/

adjective

distended

OriginLatin distentus →
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Meanings

adjectivedistent (comparative more distent, superlative most distent)

comparative more distent · superlative most distent

  1. distended

    Some others were new driven, and distent Into great ingowes

    1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
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    The North-east spends his rage; he now shut up Within his iron cave, the effusive South Warms the wide air, and o'er the void of heaven Breathes the big clouds with vernal showers distent.

    a. 1749 (date written), James Thomson, “Spring”, in The Seasons, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, and sold by Thomas Cadell, […], published 1768, →OCLC
noundistent (countable and uncountable, plural distents)

plural distents

  1. countableobsoleteuncountablebreadth

    […]shall yet be distended, one fourteenth part longer then the sayd entire Diameter; which addition of distent will conferre much to their Beauty, and detract but little from their Strength

    1624, Henry Wotton, The Elements of Architecture, […], London: […] Iohn Bill, →OCLC

Origin

  1. Latindistentus
  2. Englishdistent

From Latin distentus.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

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APA

distent. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/distent

MLA

“distent.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/distent. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “distent,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/distent.

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