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Word: distends (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Usage:

...library officials are limping along on a make-shift summer arrangement that is unable to support the nearly normal enrollment in the College and in these social sciences. While assimilating the values of using a large university's research library, Freshmen are wasting time getting books and threatening to distend Widener's walls during November hours and reading period...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Boylston Blackout | 10/20/1942 | See Source »

...some of the body's natural proteins turn into a substance called histamine. Some researchers believe that histamine dilates the tender arteries of the tough membrane (dura mater) that lines the skull, and a splitting hangover headache is the result. High fevers and various kinds of infections also distend these arteries and cause pain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Pain Above the Neck | 3/16/1942 | See Source »

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