distender

From distend +‎ -er.

distender (plural distenders)

1. 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.

• dendrites

From Latin distendere.

• Hyphenation: dis‧ten‧der

distender (first-person singular present distendo, first-person singular preterite distendi, past participle distendido)

1. to stretch, to distend
2. to pull (a muscle)

Borrowed from Latin distendere.

• IPA^(key): /distenˈdeɾ/ [d̪is.t̪ẽn̪ˈd̪eɾ]
• Rhymes: -eɾ
• Syllabification: dis‧ten‧der

distender (first-person singular present distiendo, first-person singular preterite distendí, past participle distendido)

1. (transitive) to stretch, to distend
2. (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.

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• “distender”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024