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The Meaning of expand
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(v. t.) To lay open by extending; to open wide; to spread out; to diffuse; as, a flower expands its leaves.
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(v. t.) 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.
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(v. t.) To state in enlarged form; to develop; as, to expand an equation. See Expansion, 5.
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(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.
Synonyms
elaborate
,
unfold
,
expound
,
spread
,
exposit
,
flourish
,
spread out
,
amplify
,
dissipate
,
lucubrate
,
blow up
,
scatter
,
thrive
,
fan out
,
string out
,
extend
,
inflate
,
expatiate
,
splay
,
open
,
flesh out
,
dilate
,
disperse
,
rotate
,
boom
,
enlarge
,
turn out
,
diffuse
,
wave
,
fly high
,
blast
,
din
,
nail
,
brandish
,
thunder
,
prosper
,
boom out
,
smash
,
balloon
,
go ballistic
,
puff out
,
detonate
,
have kittens
,
flip one's wig
,
embroider
,
puff up
,
puff
,
hit the roof
,
explode
,
throw a fit
,
combust
,
flip one's lid
,
magnify
,
pad
,
embellish
,
lard
,
fly off the handle
,
set off
,
lose one's temper
,
overstate
,
billow
,
blow a fuse
,
hit the ceiling
,
exaggerate
,
aggrandise
,
have a fit
,
dramatise
,
aggrandize
,
overdraw
,
hyperbolize
,
hyperbolise
,
dramatize
,
blow one's stack
,
work out
,
refine
,
fat
,
fatten
,
fill out
,
rarify
,
set forth
,
fatten up
,
plump
,
fatten out
,
complicate
,
plump out
,
distend
,
round
,
gallop
,
widen
,
run
,
lead
,
continue
,
poke out
,
stretch out
,
draw out
,
offer
,
put out
,
carry
,
go
,
stretch
,
protract
,
stretch forth
,
pass
,
reach out
,
exsert
,
cover
,
prolong
,
strain
,
hold out
,
broaden
,
augment
,
develop
,
increase
Antonyms
summarize
,
boil down
,
curtail
,
epitomize
,
retrench
,
sum up
,
abridge
,
cut
,
shrink
,
amputate
,
condense
,
cut down
,
contract
,
abbreviate
,
shorten
,
reduce
,
foreshorten
Rhymes
ampersand
,
armband
,
backhand
,
band
,
bandstand
,
banned
,
beforehand
,
bland
,
bourland
,
brand
,
brande
,
broadband
,
canned
,
chand
,
command
,
contraband
,
cropland
,
deland
,
demand
,
disband
,
dixieland
,
dreamland
,
fairyland
,
fanned
,
farmhand
,
farmland
,
fatherland
,
ferdinand
,
fernand
,
finland
,
firebrand
,
firsthand
,
forehand
,
freehand
,
gland
,
goodland
,
grand
,
grande
,
grandstand
,
grassland
,
greenland
,
hand
,
handstand
,
headband
,
heartland
,
hildebrand
,
hinterland
,
homeland
,
inland
,
laband
,
land
,
lande
,
lapland
,
lefthand
,
longhand
,
lowland
,
mainland
,
mande
,
manned
,
marchand
,
marshland
,
meadowland
,
midland
,
misunderstand
,
moorland
,
motherland
,
newsstand
,
nightstand
,
northland
,
nuland
,
offhand
,
outmanned
,
overland
,
panned
,
parkland
,
planned
,
queensland
,
quicksand
,
rand
,
remand
,
reprimand
,
rhineland
,
samarkand
,
sand
,
secondhand
,
shadowland
,
shand
,
shorthand
,
somaliland
,
southland
,
spanned
,
stagehand
,
stand
,
strand
,
strande
,
streisand
,
tanned
,
thailand
,
timberland
,
undermanned
,
understand
,
unmanned
,
unplanned
,
vande
,
wasteland
,
wetland
,
withstand
,
wonderland
,
woodland