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verb

(past & past part. expanded; pres. part. expanding)

Extend in one or more directions. Synonym: spread out. Antonym: contract.

Become larger in size or volume or quantity.

Make bigger or wider in size, volume, or quantity.

Grow vigorously. Synonyms: boom, flourish, thrive. "Business is booming"

Exaggerate or make bigger. Synonyms: amplify, blow up, inflate.

Add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing. Synonyms: dilate, elaborate, enlarge, expatiate, exposit, expound, flesh out, lucubrate. Antonym: contract.

Expand the influence of. Synonym: extend.

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"Expand" Quotes from Famous Books

... time became unbearable, for while the portent— whether physical or moral we were too far under its influence to distinguish—grew momentarily, our own souls did not expand in due correspondence. We talked of towing, of kedging out, of going to any extreme, even to small boats. Then just as we were about to move toward some accomplishment, a new phenomenon chained ...

— The Mystery • Stewart Edward White and Samuel Hopkins Adams

... than twine and does not wear. Even though it is not removed, it does no harm, as the part around which it is wound does not grow. The lower ties should be of softer material, as wire has a tendency to cut into the wood. They should be placed so that the cane is able to expand as it grows. With thin and especially with round stakes this means that the tie must be loose. With large, square stakes there is usually sufficient room for expansion, even when the ...

— Manual of American Grape-Growing • U. P. Hedrick

... commerce, mean to a European nation of to-day just what our vast, half-improved, heavily tariffed territory means to us. They mean to those nations room to expand, land wherewith to portion off the sons and daughters that cannot find living space at home, widespread political and international influence, through blood affiliation with prosperous colonies, the power of ...

— Lessons of the war with Spain and other articles • Alfred T. Mahan

... dreadful sensation seized me. I was slipping through the bottom of my pocket! Though I had a watered ribbon attached to me my master always carried me loose in his waistcoat pocket, with never a suspicion of the hole that was there. But now that hole seemed suddenly to expand in order to let ...

— The Adventures of a Three-Guinea Watch • Talbot Baines Reed

... age down to the Class M state. We know that the compression of any body against resistance generates or releases heat. Now a gaseous star at any instant is in a state of equilibrium. Its internal heat and the centrifugal force due to its rotation about an axis are trying to expand it. Its own gravitational power is trying to draw all of its materials to the center. Until there is a loss of heat no contraction can occur; but just as soon as there is such a loss gravity proceeds to diminish the stellar volume. Contraction will proceed more slowly than we should at ...

— Popular Science Monthly Volume 86

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