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expandedverbpast tense of expand to express more fully and in greater detailan article on the First Ladies that the author later expanded into a book amplified, developed, dilated (on or upon), elaborated (on), enlarged (on or upon), fleshed (out) added (to), complemented, supplementeddiscoursed, expatiated, rambled, ran on abbreviated, abridged, condensed, shortened compressed, contractedoutlined, summarized, summed up to make greater in size, amount, or numberwe had to expand the list of wedding guests several times in order to accommodate all the relatives Mother wouldn't dream of excluding accelerated, added (to), aggrandized, amplified, augmented, boosted, built up, compounded, enlarged, escalated, extended, hyped, increased, multiplied, pumped up, raised, stoked, supersized, swelled, upped boomed, jumped, skyrocketed, spikedbumped (up), ratcheted (up)also racheted (up)blew up, dilated, distended, inflateddrew out, elongated, fleshed (out), lengthened, prolonged, protracted, stretcheddeveloped, enhanced, heightened, intensified, magnifiedcomplemented, supplementedbeefed (up), reinforced(also reenforced), strengthenedmaximizedaccumulated, amassed, collectedfollowed up, parlayed abated, decreased, de-escalated, diminished, downsized, dwindled, lessened, lowered, minified, reduced, subtracted (from) abbreviated, abridged, curtailed, shortenedcompressed, condensed, constricted, contractedcut back, retrenched to arrange the parts of (something) over a wider areaa spare leaf for those times when we have to expand the dining table to accommodate extra guests extended, fanned (out), flared (out), opened, outspread, outstretched, spread (out), stretched (out), unfolded, unfurled overspread closed, contracted, folded compacted, compressed, condensed, reduced to become greater in extent, volume, amount, or numberwater expands when it becomes frozen accelerated, accumulated, appreciated, ballooned, boomed, built up, burgeoned(also bourgeoned), climbed, enlarged, escalated, gained, increased, mounted, multiplied, mushroomed, proliferated, rolled up, rose, snowballed, spread, swelled, waxed jumped, rocketed, skyrocketed, surgedheightened, intensified, redoubledblew up, bulked, distended, inflated, puffed (up)crescendoed, crested, peaked contracted, decreased, diminished, dwindled, lessened, receded, waned in 1875 |