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EXPAND

Definition:

1. [verb] extend in one or more directions; "The dough expands"
   Synonyms: spread out
   
   
2. [verb] become larger in size or volume or quantity; "his business expanded rapidly"
   
   
3. [verb] make bigger or wider in size, volume, or quantity; "expand the house by adding another wing"
   
   
4. [verb] grow stronger; "The economy was booming"
   Synonyms: boom, prosper, thrive, get ahead, flourish
   
   
5. [verb] exaggerate or make bigger; "The charges were inflated"
   Synonyms: inflate, blow up, amplify
   
   
6. [verb] add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing; "She elaborated on the main ideas in her dissertation"
   Synonyms: elaborate, lucubrate, expatiate, exposit, enlarge, flesh out, expound, dilate
   
   
7. [verb] expand the influence of; "The King extended his rule to the Eastern part of the continent"
   Synonyms: extend
   
   

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Related Words:

• dispread
• bush out
• balloon, inflate, billow
• swell, swell up, intumesce, tumefy, tumesce
• develop
• inflate, blow up
• revive
• luxuriate
• puff up
• detail
• set forth, expound, exposit
• exemplify, illustrate, instance
• specify, particularize, particularise, specialize, specialise

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