distend

verb4

1. •
   To extend or expand, as from internal pressure; to swell

   • I begin to hate the theater, the feeling wickedly distended by histrionics, all the old gestures, clutchings, tears, and applications. — 1976
2. •
   To cause to swell.
3. •
   To cause gravidity.
4. •
   [with oneself] (no longer used) To extend; to stretch out; to spread out.

   • These impure and frail matters are conteined within the angust concave of the Lunar Orb, above which with uninterrupted Series the things Celestial distend themselves. — 1661