expand
1. extend in one or more directions (Freq. 7)
- The dough expands
• Syn:
spread out
• Ant:
contract
• Derivationally related forms:
expansible, expandible, expansive
• Hypernyms:
grow
• Hyponyms:
dispread, bush out
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s
- Something is ----ing PP
2. become larger in size or volume or quantity (Freq. 6)
- his business expanded rapidly
• Derivationally related forms:
expansible, expandible, expansive
• Hypernyms:
grow
• Hyponyms:
balloon, inflate, billow, swell, swell up,
intumesce, tumefy, tumesce
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s
3. make bigger or wider in size, volume, or quantity (Freq. 4)
- expand the house by adding another wing
• Derivationally related forms:
expansible, expandible, expansive
• Hypernyms:
enlarge
• Hyponyms:
develop, inflate, blow up
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Something ----s something
4. grow vigorously (Freq. 4)
- The deer population in this town is thriving
- business is booming
• Syn:
boom, thrive, flourish
• Derivationally related forms:
expansible, boom (for: boom)
• Hypernyms:
grow
• Hyponyms:
revive, luxuriate
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s
- The business is going to expand
5. exaggerate or make bigger (Freq. 3)
- The charges were inflated
• Syn:
inflate, blow up, amplify
• Derivationally related forms:
expansive
• Hypernyms:
increase
• Hyponyms:
puff up
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Something ----s something
6. add details, as to an account or idea;
clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing
- She elaborated on the main ideas in her dissertation
• Syn:
elaborate, lucubrate, expatiate, exposit, enlarge,
flesh out, expound, dilate
• Ant:
contract
• Derivationally related forms:
dilation (for: dilate), expository (for: expound), exponent (for: expound), expounding (for: expound), expansion, enlargement (for: enlarge), exposition (for: exposit), expatiation (for: expatiate), lucubration (for: lucubrate), elaboration (for: elaborate)
• Hypernyms:
clarify, clear up, elucidate
• Hyponyms:
detail, set forth, expound, exposit, exemplify,
exemplify, instance, specify, particularize, particularise,
specialize, specialise
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s
- Somebody ----s something
- Something ----s something
- Somebody ----s PP
7. expand the influence of
- The King extended his rule to the Eastern part of the continent
• Syn:
extend
• Derivationally related forms:
expandible, expansive
• Hypernyms:
change, alter, modify
• Verb Group:
widen, broaden, extend
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
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