| Main Entry: | distend |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | bulge, swell |
Synonyms: |
amplify, augment, balloon, bloat, dilate, distort, enlarge, expand, increase, inflate, lengthen, puff, stretch, widen |
Antonyms: |
cave in, contract, deflate, fall, shrink |
| Main Entry: | distended |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | swollen |
Synonyms: |
bloated, bulging, enlarged, expanded, inflated, puffed out, puffy, stretched, tumescent, tumid, turgid |
| Main Entry: | balloon |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | billow out; bloat |
Synonyms: |
belly, blow up, bulge, dilate, distend, enlarge, expand, inflate, puff out, swell |
| Main Entry: | billowy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | surging |
Synonyms: |
bouncing, bouncy, bulgy, distended, ebbing and flowing, heaving, puffy, rippled, rippling, rising, rising and falling, rolling, swelling, swirling, swollen, undulating, waving, wavy |
| Main Entry: | bloat |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | blow up like a balloon |
Synonyms: |
balloon, belly, bilge, billow, dilate, distend, enlarge, expand, inflate, puff up, swell |
Antonyms: |
deflate, shrink, shrivel, tighten |
| Main Entry: | blow up |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | inflate |
Synonyms: |
billow, bloat, distend, enlarge, expand, fill, inflate, puff up, pump up, swell |
Antonyms: |
deflate, let out, shrink, shrivel |
| Main Entry: | bulge |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | project outward |
Synonyms: |
bag, balloon, beetle, belly, bilge, billow, bloat, blob, bug out, dilate, distend, enlarge, expand, extrude, jut, overhang, poke, pop out, pouch, protrude, protuberate, puff out, sag, stand out, stick out, swell |
Antonyms: |
cave in, depress |
| Main Entry: | dilate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | stretch, widen |
Synonyms: |
amplify, augment, be profuse, be prolix, broaden, develop, distend, enlarge, expand, expatiate, expound, extend, increase, inflate, lengthen, prolong, protract, puff out, spin off, swell |
Antonyms: |
compress, constrict, contract, lessen, reduce |
| Main Entry: | embroider |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | exaggerate information |
Synonyms: |
aggrandize, amplify, blow-up, build up, color, distend, dramatize, elaborate, embellish, enhance, enlarge, expand, falsify, fudge, heighten, hyperbolize, lie, magnify, make federal case, make mountain out of molehill, overdo, overelaborate, overembellish, overemphasize, overestimate, overstate, pad, play up, puff, romanticize, spread on thick, stretch, stretch the truth, yeast |
| Main Entry: | enlarge |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make or grow bigger; increase |
Synonyms: |
add to, aggrandize, amplify, augment, beef up, blow up, boost, broaden, build, bulk, develop, diffuse, dilate, distend, elaborate, elongate, embroider, exaggerate, expand, expatiate, extend, give details, grow, grow larger, heighten, inflate, jack up, jazz up, lengthen, magnify, make larger, mount, multiply, pad, pyramid, rise, slap on, snowball, spread, stretch, swell, upsurge, wax, widen |
Antonyms: |
abridge, compress, condense, curtail, decrease, diminish, lessen, lower, reduce, shrink |