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1. Extend in one or more directions
   "The dough expands"
   - spread out
    
2. Become larger in size or volume or quantity
   "his business expanded rapidly"
    
3. Make bigger or wider in size, volume, or quantity
   "expand the house by adding another wing"
    
4. Grow vigorously
   - boom, thrive, flourish
    
5. Exaggerate or make bigger
   - inflate, blow up, amplify
    
6. Add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing
   - elaborate, lucubrate, expatiate, exposit, enlarge, flesh out, expound, dilate
    
7. Expand the influence of
   - extend

Derived forms: expanded, expands, expanding

See also: expansible, expansion, expansive

Type of: alter, change, clarify, clear up, elucidate, enlarge, grow, increase, modify

Antonym: contract

Encyclopedia: Expand