About The Word Expand
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What's The Definition Of Expand?
[v] become larger in size or volume or quantity; "his business expanded rapidly"; "The bag will expand when pressure is lowered"
[v] exaggerate or make bigger; "The charges were inflated" [v] grow stronger; "The economy was booming" [v] expand the influence of; "The King extended his rule to the Eastern part of the continent" [v] make bigger or wider in size, volume, or quantity; "expand the house by adding another wing" [v] 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" [v] extend in one or more directions; "The dough expands" Synonyms | Synonyms for Expand: amplify | blow up | boom | dilate | elaborate | enlarge | expatiate | exposit | expound | extend | flesh out | flourish | get ahead | lucubrate | prosper | spread out | thrive Related Terms | Find terms related to Expand: add to | adulterate | aggrandize | amplify | attenuate | augment | balloon | beef up | bloat | blow up | bolster | boost | branch | branch out | broaden | build | build up | bulk | bulk out | complete | crescendo | cut | deal in generalities | deepen | deploy | descant | detail | develop | dilate | dilute | discourse | disperse | distend | ecumenicize | elaborate | embellish | enlarge | enlarge upon | enter into detail | etherealize | evolve | exalt | expatiate | explicate | extend | fan | fan out | fatten | fill out | flare | generalize | globalize | go into | greaten | grow | heighten | hike | hike up | huff | increase | inflate | jack up | jump up | labor | lengthen | magnify | make a generalization | maximize | mount | multiply | mushroom | open | open up | outspread | outstretch | overgrow | overrun | parlay | particularize | prolong | protract | puff | puff up | pump | pump up | put up | pyramid | raise | ramify | rarefy | rehearse in extenso | relate at large | snowball | spell out | splay | spraddle | sprangle | sprawl | spread | spread like wildfire | spread out | stretch | subtilize | sufflate | swell | thicken | thin | thin out | tumefy | unfold | universalize | up | upsurge | vise | water | water down | wax | widen | work out See Also | alter | balloon | billow | bush out | change | clarify | clear up | detail | develop | dispread | elucidate | enlarge | exemplify | grow | grow | illustrate | increase | inflate | instance | intumesce | luxuriate | particularise | particularize | puff up | revive | rise | set forth | specialise | specialize | specify | swell | swell up | tumefy Expand In Webster's Dictionary \Ex*pand"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Expanded}; p. pr. & vb.
n. {Expanding}.] [L. expandere, expansum; ex out + pandere to
spread out, to throw open; perh. akin to E. patent. Cf.
{Spawn}.]
1. To lay open by extending; to open wide; to spread out; to
diffuse; as, a flower expands its leaves.
Then with expanded wings he steers his flight.
--Milton.
2. To cause the particles or parts of to spread themselves or
stand apart, thus increasing bulk without addition of
substance; to make to occupy more space; to dilate; to
distend; to extend every way; to enlarge; -- opposed to
{contract}; as, to expand the chest; heat expands all
bodies; to expand the sphere of benevolence.
3. (Math.) To state in enlarged form; to develop; as, to
expand an equation. See {Expansion}, 5.
\Ex*pand"\, v. i. To become widely opened, spread apart, dilated, distended, or enlarged; as, flowers expand in the spring; metals expand by heat; the heart expands with joy. --Dryden. |
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