Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to distend
Participle: distended
Gerund: distending
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | distend |
| you | distend |
| he;she;it | distends |
| we | distend |
| you | distend |
| they | distend |
Perfect
| I | have distended |
| you | have distended |
| he;she;it | has distended |
| we | have distended |
| you | have distended |
| they | have distended |
Past
| I | distended |
| you | distended |
| he;she;it | distended |
| we | distended |
| you | distended |
| they | distended |
Pluperfect
| I | had distended |
| you | had distended |
| he;she;it | had distended |
| we | had distended |
| you | had distended |
| they | had distended |
Future
| I | will distend |
| you | will distend |
| he;she;it | will distend |
| we | will distend |
| you | will distend |
| they | will distend |
Future Perfect
| I | will have distended |
| you | will have distended |
| he;she;it | will have distended |
| we | will have distended |
| you | will have distended |
| they | will have distended |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | distend |
| you | distend |
| he;she;it | distend |
| we | distend |
| you | distend |
| they | distend |
Perfect
| I | have distended |
| you | have distended |
| he;she;it | have distended |
| we | have distended |
| you | have distended |
| they | have distended |
Imperfect
| I | distended |
| you | distended |
| he;she;it | distended |
| we | distended |
| you | distended |
| they | distended |
Pluperfect
| I | had distended |
| you | had distended |
| he;she;it | had distended |
| we | had distended |
| you | had distended |
| they | had distended |
Conditional
Present
| I | would distend |
| you | would distend |
| he;she;it | would distend |
| we | would distend |
| you | would distend |
| they | would distend |
Perfect
| I | would have distended |
| you | would have distended |
| he;she;it | would have distended |
| we | would have distended |
| you | would have distended |
| they | would have distended |
Imperative
| you | distend |
| we | Let's distend |
| you | distend |
Verbs conjugated like 'distend'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'distend'
disbend,
dispend,
descend,
despend,
dirten,
disattend,
disband,
disbind,
discind,
dispand,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. c.1400, from L. distendere "to swell or stretch out, extend," from dis- "apart" + tendere "to stretch" (see tenet).
2. Etymology tree
3. Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁
4. Proto-Indo-European *d(w)is-
5. Proto-Italic *dis-
6. Latin dis-
7. Proto-Indo-European *ten-
8. Proto-Indo-European *tend-
9. Proto-Indo-European *-eti
10. Proto-Indo-European *téndeti
11. Proto-Italic *tendō
12. Latin tendō
13. Latin distendōbor.
14. English distend
15. Borrowed from Latin distendō.
Sample Sentences
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[...] round, bullet head, large, light-gray eyes, with their shaggy, sandy eyebrows, and stiff, wiry, sun-burned hair, were rather unprepossessing items, it is to be confessed; his large, coarse mouth was distended with tobacco, the juice of which, from time to time, he ejected from him with great decision and explosive force; his hands were immensely large, hairy, sun-burned, freckled, and very dirty, and [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)