Distend
The crossword clue "Distend" is answered by BLOAT, a 5-letter entry. Used 16 times across 14 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1952. It appears in 8 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
BLOAT
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the BLOAT answer page.
Used 16 times across 14 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1952. It appears in 8 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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Other clues for BLOAT
Every other clue in this collection answered by BLOAT, most used first.
- Swell up - used 31 times, most recently in 2026
- Puff up - used 27 times, most recently in 2024
- Swell - used 27 times, most recently in 2024
- Become swollen - used 25 times, most recently in 2023
- Cause to swell - used 15 times, most recently in 2024
- Balloon - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
- Puff up, as an ego - used 7 times, most recently in 2017
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