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expandingverbpresent participle of expand to express more fully and in greater detailan article on the First Ladies that the author later expanded into a book amplifying, developing, dilating (on or upon), elaborating (on), enlarging (on or upon), fleshing (out) adding (to), complementing, supplementingdiscoursing, expatiating, rambling, running on abbreviating, abridging, condensing, shortening compressing, contractingoutlining, summarizing, summing 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 accelerating, adding (to), aggrandizing, amplifying, augmenting, boosting, building up, compounding, enlarging, escalating, extending, hyping, increasing, multiplying, pumping up, raising, stoking, supersizing, swelling, upping booming, jumping, skyrocketing, spikingbumping (up), ratcheting (up)also racheting (up)blowing up, dilating, distending, inflatingdrawing out, elongating, fleshing (out), lengthening, prolonging, protracting, stretchingdeveloping, enhancing, heightening, intensifying, magnifyingcomplementing, supplementingbeefing (up), reinforcing(also reenforcing), strengtheningmaximizingaccumulating, amassing, collectingfollowing up, parlaying abating, decreasing, de-escalating, diminishing, downsizing, dwindling, lessening, lowering, minifying, reducing, subtracting (from) abbreviating, abridging, curtailing, shorteningcompressing, condensing, constricting, contractingcutting back, retrenching 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 extending, fanning (out), flaring (out), opening, outspreading, outstretching, spreading (out), stretching (out), unfolding, unfurling overspreading closing, contracting, folding compacting, compressing, condensing, reducing to become greater in extent, volume, amount, or numberwater expands when it becomes frozen accelerating, accumulating, appreciating, ballooning, booming, building up, burgeoning(also bourgeoning), climbing, enlarging, escalating, gaining, increasing, mounting, multiplying, mushrooming, proliferating, rising, rolling up, snowballing, spreading, swelling, waxing jumping, rocketing, skyrocketing, surgingheightening, intensifying, redoublingblowing up, bulking, distending, inflating, puffing (up)crescendoing, cresting, peaking contracting, decreasing, diminishing, dwindling, lessening, receding, waning |