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No. 5322: Moving in circles, won't you dilate

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Moving in circles, won't you dilate

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Strip by: Manyhills

Jon: Santa is coming soon. Have you been good this year?
{Garfield's eyes open wide and his pupils dilate}
Garfield {eyes once more heavily lidded}: Yes, I have
Jon: Too late! I saw your pupils dilate!

The author writes:

"intransitive (for reflexive). To become wider or larger; to spread out, widen, enlarge, expand." Oxford English Dictionary, s.v. "dilate (v.2), sense 3.a," December 2023, https://doi.org/10.1093/OED/1151533617.

Original strip: 2001-12-04.