Dilate

Tamil Dictionary definitions for Dilate

Dilate : விரிதல், விரித்தல்

Dilate definition

Transitive verb.

  1. To expand; to distend; to enlarge or extend in all directions; to swell; -- opposed to contract; as, the air dilates the lungs; air is dilated by increase of heat.
  2. To enlarge upon; to relate at large; to tell copiously or diffusely.

Intransitive verb.

  1. To grow wide; to expand; to swell or extend in all directions.
  2. To speak largely and copiously; to dwell in narration; to enlarge; -- with on or upon.

Adjective. Extensive; expanded.