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Meaning of distensive | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR B2

Definitions

Distending, or capable of being distended; expanding or spreading out.

Equivalents

Italiano distensive

Examples

“distensive paralysis”
“distensive opposition”
“distensive headache”
“—. distensive deformations in the Apennines and the Tyrrrhenian basin: behind the compressive front one may rapidly pass to distensive deformations.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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See also

distent disterminate disteroidal distfix distich distichal

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