dilate
IPA: daɪɫˈeɪt
verb
- (transitive) To enlarge; to make bigger.
- (intransitive) To become wider or larger; to expand.
- (transitive, intransitive) To speak largely and copiously; to dwell in narration; to enlarge; with "on" or "upon".
- (medicine, transitive, intransitive) To use a dilator to widen (something, such as a vagina).
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Examples of "dilate" in Sentences
- I can almost feel my pupils dilate; my dick gets wood.
- The orb seemed to dilate and constrict, making a slight whirring noise as it did so.
- When the body is active, generally in fight or flight mode, the sympathetic system engages, heart rate quickens, pupils dilate and energy is directed towards allowing the body to react quickly.
- While it does not have to dilate as fully as with a full-term birth, the uterus also does not have enough time to process the rapid pace of conception, birth, and loss that occurs in a miscarriage.
- I never dilate, even with drugs and the nurse cheerfully informed me as I was being wheeled in for my 1st C-Section that I would have been one of those dead-on-the-trail mothers if I was giving birth in a wagon train.
- It was the early Greek custom to dilate in great detail on everything that had led up to the play, the latter being itself, as a rule merely the catastrophe which had inevitably to ensue on the facts related in the prologue.
- It's fitting that the name, from the Latin for mirror (the museum is housed in a former observatory), is close etymological kin to speculum, an instrument used, as every woman knows, to dilate the opening of a body cavity for examination.
- WORDS ACCENTED ON THE LAST SYLLABLE: address _address'_ adept _adept'_ adult _adult'_ ally _ally'_ commandant _commandänt '(ä as in arm) _ contour _contour'_ dessert _dessert'_ dilate _dilate'_ excise _eksiz'_ finance _finance'_ grimace _grimace'_ importune _importune'_ occult _occult'_ pretence _pretence'_ research _research'_ robust _robust'_ romance _romance'_ tirade _tirade'_
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