Usually means: Expands or opens wider gradually.
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  1. dilates: Merriam-Webster
  2. dilates: Collins English Dictionary
  3. dilates: Vocabulary.com
  4. dilates: Wordnik
  5. dilates: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. dilates: Wiktionary
  7. dilates: Dictionary.com
  8. dilates: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Dilates: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. dilates: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dilates: Legal dictionary

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  1. dilates: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. dilates: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. dilates: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (dilate)

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