Expand

What do we mean by expand?

To increase the size, volume, quantity, or scope of; enlarge: synonym: increase. intransitive verb

To express at length or in detail; enlarge on. intransitive verb

To open (something) up or out; spread out. intransitive verb

To write (a quantity) as a sum of terms in an extended form. intransitive verb

To become greater in size, volume, quantity, or scope. intransitive verb

To speak or write at length or in detail. intransitive verb

To open up or out; unfold. intransitive verb

To spread or stretch out; unfold; display.

To increase in extent, size, bulk, or amount; inflate; distend; extend: as, to expand the chest by inspiration; heat expands all bodies.

Hence To make broader in scope or more comprehensive: as, to expand the heart or affections, or the sphere of benevolence.

To swell, blow up, fill, fill out, increase.

To open out; become unfolded, spread out, or displayed.

To increase in extent, size, bulk, amount, etc.; become dilated, distended, or enlarged.

In zoology, to spread over a certain space: used in stating the distance from tip to tip of outspread wings—in the case of insects, of anterior wings.

To become widely opened, spread apart, dilated, distended, or enlarged intransitive verb

To lay open by extending; to open wide; to spread out; to diffuse. transitive verb

To cause the particles or parts of to spread themselves or stand apart, thus increasing bulk without addition of substance; to make to occupy more space; to dilate; to distend; to extend every way; to enlarge; -- opposed to contract transitive verb

To state in enlarged form; to develop. See Expansion, 5. transitive verb

To change (something) from a smaller form and/or size to a larger one. verb

To increase the extent, number, volume or scope of (something). verb

To change (something) from a smaller form and/or size to a larger one; to spread out or lay open.

To increase the extent, number, volume or scope of (something).

To express (something) at length and/or in detail.

To rewrite (an expression) as a longer, yet equivalent sum of terms.

(of an expression) To become, by rewriting, a longer, yet equivalent sum of terms.

To multiply both the numerator and the denominator of a fraction by the same natural number yielding a fraction of equal value

To change from a smaller form/size to a larger one.

To increase in extent, number, volume or scope.

To speak or write at length or in detail.

To feel generous or optimistic.

Words that are spelled similarly to expand:
expand, expend.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word expand:
horizons, offerings, scope, expansion, capabilities, beyond, accommodate, opportunities, expanding, existing, adding, coverage, capacity, acquisition, add, rapidly.

Words that rhyme with expand:
hand, stand, land, band, demand, understand, brand, command, gland, strand, withstand, reprimand, grand, bland, firsthand, sand, nightstand, beforehand, contraband, offhand, misunderstand, remand, firebrand, ampersand, hinterland, rand, planned, secondhand, canned, grande, disband, at hand, grandstand, grassland, shorthand, inland, farmland, woodland, banned, broadband, wasteland, mainland, homeland, quicksand, on the other hand, headband, heartland, panned, on hand, unmanned, newsstand, wetland, thailand, manned, backhand, wonderland, freehand, motherland, timberland, overland, finland, dreamland, ferdinand, longhand, armband, fatherland, in hand, lowland, farmhand, parkland, second hand, tanned, midland, forehand, unplanned, greenland, handstand, out of hand, disneyland, rubber band, bandstand, fairyland, scanned, sleight of hand, lapland, helping hand, outland, dixieland, lefthand, shand, upper hand, stagehand, southland, close at hand, moorland, marshland, spanned, promised land, vaned, cropland.

Adjectives that are often used to describe expand:
object, tree, write.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective expand:
command, field, utility, power, function.

Consonant match to expand:
expound, expend.

Words that sound like expand:
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