Usually means: Make wider or larger; expand.
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We found 35 dictionaries that define the word dilate:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. dilate: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. dilate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dilate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. dilate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. dilate: Vocabulary.com
  6. Dilate, dilate: Wordnik
  7. dilate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. dilate: Wiktionary
  9. dilate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. dilate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. dilate: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. dilate: Dictionary.com
  13. dilate: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. dilate: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Dilate (Ani DiFranco album), Dilate (Bardo Pond album), Dilate (Vessels album), Dilate (musical project): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Dilate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. dilate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. dilate: Rhymezone
  19. dilate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. dilate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. dilate: Free Dictionary
  22. dilate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. dilate: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. dilate: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dilate: Encyclopedia

Medicine (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dilate: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. dilate: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  4. dilate: Medical dictionary
  5. Dilate: Drug Medical Dictionary
  6. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)
  7. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)

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  1. dilate: Idioms

(Note: See dilatability as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To enlarge; to make bigger.
verb:  (intransitive) To become wider or larger; to expand.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To speak largely and copiously; to dwell in narration; to enlarge; with "on" or "upon".
verb:  (medicine, transitive, intransitive) To use a dilator to widen (something, such as a vagina).

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