Distention: The state of being distended, enlarged, swollen from internal pressure. For example, on inhalation there is distention of the lungs due to the increased air pressure within the lungs. The word distention comes from a Latin root tendere, to extend. The word tendon comes from the same root.
He and Lady Mary Crawley entered a tumultuous eight-year relationship ending with Matthew's second proposal in early January 1920. Mary finally accepts, five and a half years after the first. They get married in May 1920 and lived together in Downton Abbey.
Maybe itâs because the shift seemed dramatic and sudden. One minute he was Downton Abbeyâs terribly decent Matthew Crawley and the next he was gun-toting, abs-flaunting potentially homicidally dangerous âDavidâ (weâre never sure) in The Guest. As volte-faces go, this one was a headspinner.