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distent

/dɪsˈtɛnt/

distent adjective: distended.

Adjective

distent (comparative more distent, superlative most distent)

  1. distended
    • Some others were new driven, and distent
      Into great ingowes1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
    • 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

Noun

distent (countable and uncountable, plural distents)

  1. (obsolete) breadth
    • […]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 Strength1624, Henry Wotton, The Elements of Architecture, […], London: […] Iohn Bill, →OCLC

Forms of distent

Adjective
comparativemore distent
superlativemost distent
Noun
pluraldistents

Origin of distent

From Latin distentus.

Questions about distent

What does distent mean?
Distent means distended.
What part of speech is distent?
Distent can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce distent?
Distent is pronounced /dɪsˈtɛnt/.

Words near distent in the dictionary

  1. distensible
  2. distensile
  3. distension
  4. distensions
  5. distensive
  6. distent
  7. distention
  8. distentions
  9. distents
  10. dister
  11. disterane

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