distender
English
editEtymology
editNoun
editdistender (plural distenders)
- One who, or that which, distends.
- 2005, Robert Barr, In the Midst of Alarms, page 28:
- Crinoline was fashionable, even in the country, in those days, and ribs of cane were used before the metallic distenders of dresses came in.
Anagrams
editPortuguese
editEtymology
editFrom Latin distendere.
Pronunciation
edit
- Hyphenation: dis‧ten‧der
Verb
editdistender (first-person singular present distendo, first-person singular preterite distendi, past participle distendido)
Conjugation
edit Conjugation of distender (See Appendix:Portuguese verbs)
Spanish
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Latin distendere.
Pronunciation
editVerb
editdistender (first-person singular present distiendo, first-person singular preterite distendí, past participle distendido)
- (transitive) to stretch, to distend
- (reflexive) to ease, to relax
- 2017 August 17, “Presidente de Corea del Sur:”, in El Comercio[1]:
- Sin embargo, la alarma mundial comenzó a distenderse el martes después de que el líder norcoreano Kim Jong-un se distanció del plan.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Conjugation
edit Conjugation of distender (e-ie alternation) (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
Selected combined forms of distender (e-ie alternation)
These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.
Further reading
edit- “distender”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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