Dilate: alternatives and connections

To make clear or bright by freeing from feculent matter; to defecate; to fine; -- said of liquids, as wine or sirup.

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To make clear or manifest; to render more intelligible; to illustrate; as, an example will elucidate the subject.

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To make wide or wider; to extend in breadth; to increase the width of; as, to widen a field; to widen a breach; to widen a stocking.

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A minute portion; one of the small parts; a particular; an item; -- used chiefly in the plural; as, the details of a scheme or transaction.

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To show or illustrate by example.

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To lay open; to expose to view; to examine.

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To make clear, bright, or luminous.

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The act or quality of being instant or pressing; urgency; solicitation; application; suggestion; motion.

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To give as a particular, or as the particulars; to mention particularly; to give the particulars of; to enumerate or specify in detail.

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To mention specially; to particularize.

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To mention or name, as a particular thing; to designate in words so as to distinguish from other things; as, to specify the uses of a plant; to speci…

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Prolixity; diffuse discourse.

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Prolixity; diffuse discourse.

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One who, or that which, dilates, expands, o r enlarges.

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One who, or that which, dilates, expands, o r enlarges.

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Delay.

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Delay.

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One who, or that which, widens or expands.

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One who, or that which, widens or expands.

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The act of lucubrating, or studying by candlelight; nocturnal study; meditation.

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The act of lucubrating, or studying by candlelight; nocturnal study; meditation.

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To extend in some one direction; to lengthen out; to stretch.

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Wrought with labor; finished with great care; studied; executed with exactness or painstaking; as, an elaborate discourse; an elaborate performance;…

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To make larger; to increase in quantity or dimensions; to extend in limits; to magnify; as, the body is enlarged by nutrition; to enlarge one's house.

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To lay open by extending; to open wide; to spread out; to diffuse; as, a flower expands its leaves.

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To range at large, or without restraint.

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To lay open; to expose to view; to examine.

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To study by candlelight or a lamp; to study by night.

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