The Clue
Ignored? (9 letter answer)
The Answer
DISTENDED
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Notes
The answer DISTENDED is so rare that it appears less than once every 2500 puzzles.
Definition
DISTEND as a verb:
1. (dilate, distend) = become wider; "His pupils were dilated"
2. cause to expand as it by internal pressure; "The gas distended the animal's body"
3. swell from or as if from internal pressure; "The distended bellies of the starving cows"
DISTENDED as an adjective:
1. (bloated, distended, puffed, puffy, swollen, intumescent, tumescent, tumid, turgid) = abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas; "hungry children with bloated stomachs"; "he had a grossly distended stomach"; "eyes with puffed (or puffy) lids"; "swollen hands"; "tumescent tissue"; "puffy tumid flesh"
2. (distended, swollen) = abnormally expanded or increased in size; (`swollen' is sometimes used in combination); "distended wineskins"; "the need to clean out swollen inventories"; "the raisins were plump and soft and swollen from being soaked"; "huge blood-swollen mosquitoes"