<p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>(used with or without object) to expand by stretching, as something hollow or elastic: Habitual overeating had distended his stomach.</li><li>Synonyms: bloat, enlarge</li><li>Antonyms: contract, shrink</li><li>to spread in all directions; expand; swell: The sea distended about them.</li></ul>