Definition of "distending" [distending]

• Present participle of distend. (verb)

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• "She saw a pipe and the skin distending, and heard the sound."
• "When Tommy learned that "distending" meant that his stomach was being stretched, he was delighted."
• ""I saw the film again a couple of nights ago at the premiere and ... my God, my lips are like the lips of a horse, kind of distending independently away from my face and trying to encompass the lower half of hers.""