ventricose

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ventricose
Adjective
  • Stay active: Regular exercise helps promote the health of your blood vessels and keeps risk factors at bay, preventing varicose or spider veins.
    Mark Gurarie, Verywell Health, 2 Dec. 2024
  • Maintain a healthy weight: Excess body fat puts pressure on your blood vessels, raising the risk of varicose and spider veins.
    Mark Gurarie, Verywell Health, 2 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • Bloating causes your belly to feel full and look distended.
    Kathleen Felton, Health, 9 June 2024
  • But for all its brawn and atmosphere and robustly choreographed combat, this is a distended historical tapestry too sprawling to remain compelling, particularly when its focus veers away from the central couple.
    David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
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“Ventricose.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ventricose. Accessed 2 May. 2025.

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