Clues for the word "DILATE"
We've had 48 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 168 times in crosswords. It was last seen in New York Times crossword on April 08, 2026.
Definition of dilate
- v. t. - 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.
- v. t. - To enlarge upon; to relate at large; to tell copiously or diffusely.
- v. i. - To grow wide; to expand; to swell or extend in all directions.
- v. i. - To speak largely and copiously; to dwell in narration; to enlarge; -- with on or upon.
- a. - Extensive; expanded.
Referring Clues
- Enlarge
- Swell
- Prepare pupils for examination
- Get wider
- Widen, as a pupil
- Cause to expand
- Widen
- What pupils do in the dark
- Make wider
- Prepare pupils for an exam?
- Become wider, as pupils
- Open wide
- Expand
- Spread out
- Widen, as pupils
- Grow, as a pupil
- Grow wider
- Broaden
- Open wider
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- Open wider, as a pupil
- Broaden, as a pupil
- Expand, as pupils
- Cause to expand, as pupils
- Become larger, as a pupil
- Distend
- Adulterate
- Speak at length about detail
- Tailed (anag.)
- Returning one day behind schedule, explain at length
- Expand - talk at length
- I'd return after time to explain more fully
- Spread out hat that's turned over and put away
- Little girl slow to develop
- Enlarge - detail (anag)
- Become wider
- Stretch to analyse detail
- Stretch to live long, they say
- Widen (pupils)
- Expand on obscure detail(6)
- Woman, having died, spread out in all directions
- Something a pupil may do
- Pupils do it in the dark
- Open letters after a time
- Expand the use of detail
- Get wider, as eyes
- Widen like pupils
- Respond, as a pupil might
Last Seen In
- New York Times - April 08, 2026
- Evening Standard Easy - April 01, 2026
- New Zealand Herald - January 20, 2026
- Mirror Daily - December 31, 2025
- Daily Quick - November 26, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - November 17, 2025
- Your Life Choices - October 20, 2025
- Mirror Daily - September 23, 2025
- Daily American - September 12, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - September 01, 2025
- Your Life Choices - August 01, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - July 10, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - May 30, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - May 06, 2025
- Daily American - May 04, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - April 26, 2025
- Mirror Daily - April 25, 2025
- Mirror Daily - April 05, 2025
- Mirror Daily - March 01, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - February 26, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - February 26, 2025
- Mirror Daily - January 19, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - January 03, 2025
- New York Times - October 21, 2024
- Your Life Choices - August 25, 2024
- Mirror Daily - August 16, 2024
- Mirror Daily - May 07, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - November 29, 2023
- Daily Quick - November 26, 2023
- Mindfood Daily - November 14, 2023
- And in 138 more crossword puzzles...