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Distending
- verb - become wider; "His pupils were dilated"
- cause to expand as it by internal pressure; "The gas distended the animal's body"
- swell from or as if from internal pressure; "The distended bellies of the starving cows"
Distension
- noun - the act of expanding by pressure from within
- the state of being stretched beyond normal dimensions
Distensive
- - Distending, or capable of being distended.
Distention
- noun - the act of expanding by pressure from within
- the state of being stretched beyond normal dimensions
Distilling
- verb - extract by the process of distillation; "distill the essence of this compound"
- give off (a liquid); "The doctor distilled a few drops of disinfectant onto the wound"
- remove impurities from, increase the concentration of, and separate through the process of distillation; "purify the water"
- undergo condensation; change from a gaseous to a liquid state and fall in drops; "water condenses"; "The acid distills at a specific temperature"
- undergo the process of distillation
Distorting
- verb -
- affect as in thought or feeling;
- alter the shape of (something) by stress; "His body was deformed by leprosy"
- make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story
- twist and press out of shape
Distortion
- noun - a change (usually undesired) in the waveform of an acoustic or analog electrical signal; the difference between two measurements of a signal (as between the input and output signal); "heavy metal guitar players use vacuum tube amplifiers to produce extreme distortion"
- a change for the worse
- a shape resulting from distortion
- an optical phenomenon resulting from the failure of a lens or mirror to produce a good image
- the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean
- the mistake of misrepresenting the facts
Disturbing
- verb - causing distress or worry or anxiety; "distressing (or disturbing) news"; "lived in heroic if something distressful isolation"; "a disturbing amount of crime"; "a revelation that was most perturbing"; "a new and troubling thought"; "in a particularly worrisome predicament"; "a worrying situation"; "a worrying time"
- change the arrangement or position of
- damage as if by shaking or jarring; "Don't disturb the patient's wounds by moving him too rapidly!"
- destroy the peace or tranquility of; "Don't interrupt me when I'm reading"
- move deeply; "This book upset me"; "A troubling thought"
- tamper with; "Don't touch my CDs!"
Disulphide
- - A binary compound of sulphur containing two atoms of sulphur in each molecule; -- formerly called disulphuret. Cf. Bisulphide.