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expand

English

  1. 🔊 become larger in size or volume or quantity
    “his business expanded rapidly”
  2. 🔊 make bigger or wider in size, volume, or quantity
    “expand the house by adding another wing”
  3. 🔊 extend in one or more directions
    “The dough expands”
  4. 🔊 expand the influence of
    “The King extended his rule to the Eastern part of the continent”
  5. 🔊 exaggerate or make bigger
    “The charges were inflated”
  6. 🔊 grow vigorously
    “The deer population in this town is thriving”
  7. 🔊 add details, as to an account or idea
    “She elaborated on the main ideas in her dissertation”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 anchar to expand
  2. 🔊 expansionar to expand
  3. 🔊 cundir to expand, extend
  4. 🔊 expandir to expand, to spread
  5. 🔊 ampliar to expand, to extend (itself, oneself)

Similar words

inflate blow up amplify boom thrive flourish extend elaborate lucubrate expatiate exposit enlarge flesh out expound dilate spread out add to adulterate aggrandize amplify attenuate augment balloon beef up