Dilate is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.
You can make 154 anagrams from letters in dilate (adeilt).
1350-1400; Middle English dilaten Middle French dilater, Latin dīlātāre to spread out, equivalent to dī- di-2 + lāt(us) broad + -āre infinitive suffix
She was pale and fragile, yet she seemed to expand and to dilate with force and energy.
In that September morning his soul seemed to dilate with every breath he drew.
Perhaps—but I will not dilate on the things that came to my distorted imagination.
That, however, was a subject on which Margaret had promised to dilate no more.
Yet how will it dilate on the Odyssean smell of hemp and tar!
He began to dilate upon the virtues of another piece of tapestry.
Little need to dilate on the situation as it appeared to Mrs Iver!
To distend is to stretch apart or spread in all directions; to dilate, to expand.
On this point it will not be expected that we should dilate at length.
It would be needless to dilate upon the value of such a work.