distend

verb distends · distending · distended

1. intransitive To extend or expand, as from internal pressure; to swell Then came the arrowy flight and form of the hurricane itself—its actual bulk—its imbodied power, pressing along through the forest in a gyratory progress, not fifty yards wide, never distending in width, yet capriciously winding from right to left and left to right.
2. archaic, reflexive, transitive To extend; to stretch out; to spread out. These impure and frail matters are conteined within the angust concave of the Lunar Orb, above which with uninterrupted Series the things Celestial distend themselves.
3. transitive To cause to swell.
4. To cause gravidity.