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dilated

Adjective

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of Dilate

Expanded; enlarged.

Widening into a lamina or into lateral winglike appendages.

Having the margin wide and spreading.

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Boredom is like a pitiless zooming in on the epidermis of time. Every instant is dilated and magnified like the pores of the face. Jean Baudrillard

The door dilated. Robert A. Heinlein

Her whole being dilated in an atmosphere of luxury. It was the background she required, the only climate she could breathe in. Edith Wharton

"I have confidence in the abyss of the people." And those words stabbed me to the heart and dilated my eyes with horror, for it seemed to me suddenly, in a flash, that he understood what he was saying! Henri Barbusse

A breath test for alcohol use registered zero, but an arresting officer noted his “pupils were dilated, his eyes were bloodshot, and his speech was lethargic and slurred,” the affidavit says. Source: Internet

Although Marion's eyes should be dilated after her death, the contact lenses necessary for this effect would have required six weeks of acclimation to wear them, so Hitchcock decided to forgo them. Source: Internet

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