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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Dilate \Di*late"\ (?; 277), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Dilated}; p.
pr & vb n. {Dilating}.] [L. dilatare either fr di- = dis-
+ latus wide, not the same word as latus, used as p. p. of
ferre to bear (see {Latitude}); or fr dilatus used as p. p.
of differre to separate (see {Delay}, {Tolerate}, {Differ},
and cf {Dilatory}): cf F. dilater.]
1. To expand; to distend; to enlarge or extend in all
directions; to swell; -- opposed to {contract}; as the
air dilates the lungs; air is dilated by increase of heat.
2. To enlarge upon to relate at large to tell copiously or
diffusely. [R.]
Do me the favor to dilate at full What hath befallen
of them and thee till now --Shak.
Syn: To expand; swell; distend; enlarge; spread out amplify;
expatiate.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Dilated \Di*lat"ed\, a.
1. Expanded; enlarged. --Shak.
2. (Bot.) Widening into a lamina or into lateral winglike
appendages.
3. (Zo["o]l.) Having the margin wide and spreading.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
dilated
adj : made wider or larger in all dimensions; "a dilated pupil"
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