States and conditions

Synonyms for distended

The synonym for distended recorded in this bank is swollen, in the sense "abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.

1 synonym · Tier 4, High Camp · 1 sense · adjective

The synonym for distended

swollenadjective, in the sense "abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas"

That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and distended carries one sense so far.

The senseadjectiveTier 4, High CampStates and conditions

abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas

He had a grossly distended stomach.

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The true synonym

swollen

Same sentence, swapped: He had a grossly swollen stomach.

Close but different

The game offers these three alongside the answer. They are close enough to tempt and wrong enough to be wrong, which is the whole design.

baggy
bumpy
rounded

Where distended turns up in the game

distended is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 4, High Camp. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.

Play distended

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This page is built from Open English WordNet 2025, with the sense, the sentence, the tier and the near misses read by a human in the July 2026 audit. No sentence here is generated at deploy time.

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