EXPANDS

Extend in one or more directions

Example: "The dough expands"

• grow  8

• dispread  12
• bush out

• contract  12

Become larger in size or volume or quantity

Example: "His business expanded rapidly"

• grow  8

• balloon  9
• billow  11
• inflate  10
• intumesce  13
• • swell  8
  • swell up
  • tumefy  14
  • tumesce  11
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Make bigger or wider in size, volume, or quantity

Example: "Expand the house by adding another wing"

• enlarge  8

• develop  13
• blow up
• inflate  10

Grow vigorously

Example: "The deer population in this town is thriving"

• boom  8
• flourish  14
• thrive  12

• grow  8

• revive  12
• luxuriate  16

Exaggerate or make bigger

Example: "The charges were inflated"

• amplify  17
• blow up
• inflate  10

• increase  10

• puff up

Add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing

Example: "She elaborated on the main ideas in her dissertation"

• dilate  7
• elaborate  11
• enlarge  8
• expatiate  18
• exposit  16
• expound  17
• flesh out
• lucubrate  13

• clarify  15
• clear up
• elucidate  12

• detail  7
• exposit  16
• expound  17
• set forth
• • exemplify  26
  • illustrate  10
  • instance  10
  • particularise  17
  • particularize  26
  • specialise  14
  • specialize  23
  • specify  17
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• contract  12

Expand the influence of

Example: "The king extended his rule to the eastern part of the continent"

• extend  14