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expand
v
1. increase, enlarge, make larger, make bigger, make greater, Chiefly Literary. greaten, aggrandize; magnify, amplify, enhance, deepen, heighten; widen, thicken, broaden; lengthen, prolong, protract; extend, spread, outspread, spread out, branch out, Mil. deploy; unfold, unfurl, stretch out, open; wax, grow larger.
2. dilate, distend, inflate, bloat, puff out, blow up; swell, intumesce, tumefy; fill out, fatten.
3. augment, supplement, add to, superadd to; accrue, accumulate, cumulate, amass, pile up, heap up; multiply, double, redouble, treble, triple, quadruple.
4. escalate, step up, give a boost to, Sl. soup up, Sl. hop up, Sl. jazz up; accelerate, snowball, mushroom; exacerbate, aggravate.
5. develop, enlarge on, overstate; descant, expound on or upon, detail; intensify, concentrate; exaggerate, maximize, make much of, make the most of.
6. strengthen, reinforce, build up; grow, mature, flourish.
7. raise, elevate, boost, advance, exalt; rise, ascend, mount, skyrocket; burgeon, shoot up, spring up, sprout.

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