Synonyms:
distend
Meaning: swell from or as if from internal pressure; "The distended bellies of the starving cows"
Synonyms:
distend
Meaning: cause to expand as it by internal pressure; "The gas distended the animal's body"
Synonyms:
dilate, distend
Meaning: become wider; "His pupils were dilated"
Usage examples
Therefore a time would come when the elastic and explosive forces of the imprisoned gases would upheave this ponderous cover and drive out for themselves openings through tall chimneys. Hence then the volcano would distend and lift up the crust, and then burst through a crater suddenly formed at the summit or thinnest part of the volcano.