distender

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, present active infinitive of distendō.

• 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:

     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, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014