Usually means: Expanding or opening wider gradually.
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We found 19 dictionaries that define the word dilating:

General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. dilating: Merriam-Webster
  2. dilating: Collins English Dictionary
  3. dilating: Vocabulary.com
  4. Dilating, dilating: Wordnik
  5. dilating: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. dilating: Wiktionary
  7. Dilating, dilating: Dictionary.com
  8. dilating: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Dilating: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Dilating: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. dilating: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. dilating: FreeDictionary.org
  13. dilating: TheFreeDictionary.com

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

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. dilating: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dilating: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. dilating: Medical dictionary
  5. Dilating: Drug Medical Dictionary

(Note: See dilate as well.)

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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