Dilate

Verb

 * 1)  To enlarge; to make bigger.
 * The eye doctor put drops in my eye to dilate the pupil so he could see the nerve better.
 * 1)  To become wider or larger; to expand.

Adverbs for Dilate
endlessly; visibly; abnormally; intolerably; unprecedentedly; continuously; unreasonably.

Synonyms for Dilate
stretch, widen, broaden, expand, swell, enlarge, extend, open, spread, increase.

Antonyms for Dilate
shorten, condense, contract, compress, abridge, reduce, abstract, lessen, repress, limit.

Thesaurus
add to, aggrandize, amplify, augment, bag, balloon, belly, belly out, bilge, billow, bloat, blow up, bouge, broaden, bug, build, build up, bulge, bulk, bulk out, crescendo, descant, describe, detail, develop, discuss, dissert, dissertate, distend, elaborate, enlarge, enlarge upon, evolve, expand, expatiate, explicate, extend, fill out, goggle, greaten, hike, hike up, huff, increase, inflate, lengthen, magnify, narrate, particularize, pooch, pop, pouch, pout, prolong, protract, puff, puff up, pump, pump up, raise, rarefy, recite, recount, rehearse, rehearse in extenso, relate, relate at large, round out, sermonize, snowball, stretch, sufflate, swell, swell out, tumefy, unfold, up, widen, work out

Etymology
From Old (and modern) French dilater, from Latin dilatare ‘spread out’, from di- + latus ‘wide’.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: разширявам, разтварям
 * Dutch: dilatatie
 * Finnish:


 * French:
 * Polish: rozszerzać
 * Portuguese:


 * Bulgarian: разширявам се, разпростирам се
 * Dutch: Uitzetten
 * Finnish: ,


 * French: se dilater
 * Portuguese:

Derived terms

 * dilatability
 * dilatable
 * dilatably
 * dilation
 * dilative

Anagrams

 * detail
 * tailed

Anagrams

 * déliât
 * détail
 * ladite