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61MALLARMÉ (S.) — Ce poète a longtemps suscité la raillerie ou la colère: écrire de l’inintelligible est une perversité. Mais il avait su fasciner quelques artistes, parmi les plus grands: Gide, Claudel, Valéry, Gauguin, Debussy. Ils l’ont imposé. Mallarmé a des… …
62bulge — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. swell, protrude, bag. See convexity. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. swelling, lump, protrusion, protuberance, hump, bump, convexity, intumescence, bulb, bunching, outgrowth, superfluity, tumefaction, nodule …
63dilate — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. expatiate, descant; stretch, distend, enlarge. See increase, expansion, diffuseness. II (Roget s IV) v. Syn. stretch, expand, enlarge, widen; see increase 1 , stretch 2 . See Synonym Study at expand …
64swell — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. i. expand, dilate, bulge, protrude; billow; increase, grow, surge. See water, feeling, pride. n. swelling, increase; billow, wave, groundswell, sea, roller; rise, slope, knoll. See convexity,… …
65widen — I (Roget s IV) v. 1. [To make wider] Syn. add to, broaden, stretch, extend, increase, enlarge, distend, spread out, give more space, augment. Ant. compress*, narrow, cramp. 2. [To become wider] Syn. unfold, grow, open, stretch, grow larger,… …
66tend — English has two distinct words tend, but they come from the same ultimate source. Tend ‘look after’ [14] is short for attend, which goes back to Latin compound verb based on tendere ‘stretch’ – source of English tend ‘have an inclination’ [14].… …
67distention — also distension, early 15c., from M.Fr. distension and directly from L. distensionem (nom. distensio, distentio), noun of action from pp. stem of distendere (see DISTEND (Cf. distend)) …
68expand — expand, amplify, swell, distend, inflate, dilate mean to increase or to cause to increase in size, bulk, or volume. Expand is the most inclusive term in this group and may often be used interchangeably with any of the others. It distinctively… …
69balloon — n 1. aerostat, zeppelin, airship, dirigible, blimp, montgolfier, lighter than air craft. v 2. inflate, swell, swell out, bloat, belly, puff out, blow up, pump up, tumefy; dilate, distend, over distend, Obs. sufflate; expand, overexpand, stretch,… …
70enlarge — v 1. increase, augment, add to, supplement; double, triple, treble, quadruple, multiply; magnify, amplify, make greater or larger or bigger, aggrandize, Chiefly Literary. greaten; expand, extend, distend, stretch, spread; widen, broaden, heighten …
