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dilate

verb

dilated; dilating

intransitive verb

1
a
: to become enlarged or widened
Kim's eyes dilated while the outdoor stadium rocked in celebration. Ralph Wiley
… arterioles continually dilate and constrict. Janet Raloff
also : to display or become affected by expansion or widening of a body part
The expectant mother was dilating slowly. [=The expectant mother's cervix was dilating slowly.]
b
: to become expanded in extent
Understandably, a tendency to philosophize dilated with old age. Anthony Powell
Time dilates when you mentally hop continents. Bret Wallach
2
: to comment at length : discourse
usually used with on or upon
It's no small irony that a man who made a career out of dilating on failure should have ended up a success. James AtlasHe dwells and dilates upon every highlight and lowlight …The New Yorker

transitive verb

1
a
: to enlarge, widen, or cause to expand
Nitric oxide is a potent vasodilator that increases blood flow by dilating blood vessels. Ruth MacPete
Inhalers, the standard treatment for asthma, relieve wheezing by delivering an agent that dilates the bronchioles … Tony Dajer
Cocaine … increases the heart rate, raises the blood pressure and, in large doses, increases the body temperature and dilates the pupils of the eyes. Craif Van Dyke and Robert Byck
b
: to expand in extent
dilate our cultural knowledge
Like millions of other urban youths in the 1960s, Tian got a chance to dilate his horizons when he was sent into the countryside during the Cultural Revolution to learn from the peasantry. Lawrence Chua
2
archaic : to describe or set forth at length or in detail
Do me the favor to dilate at full / What hath befallen of them … William Shakespeare
dilatable adjective
dilator
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