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verb

(past & past part. expanded; pres. part. expanding)

Extend in one or more directions. Synonym: spread out.

Become larger in size or volume or quantity.

Make bigger or wider in size, volume, or quantity.

Grow vigorously. Synonyms: boom, flourish, thrive. "Business is booming"

Exaggerate or make bigger. Synonyms: amplify, blow up, inflate.

Add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing. Synonyms: dilate, elaborate, enlarge, expatiate, exposit, expound, flesh out, lucubrate.

Expand the influence of. Synonym: extend.

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"Expand" Quotes from Famous Books

... best. We are forced to struggle for knowledge, like the poor feeble infant in the month, who is pinned and fettered down upon the nurse's lap; and who, if its little arms happen, by chance, to escape its nurse's observation, and offer but to expand themselves, are immediately taken into custody, and pinioned down to their passive behaviour. So, when a poor girl, in spite of her narrow education, breaks out into notice, her genius is immediately tamed by trifling ...

— Pamela (Vol. II.) • Samuel Richardson

... ourselves too little for the sphere of our duty; if, on the contrary, we do not stretch and expand our minds to the compass of their object; be well assured that everything about us will dwindle by degrees, until at length our concerns are shrunk to the dimensions of our minds. It is not a predilection to mean, sordid, home-bred cares that will avert the ...

— The Economist - Volume 1, No. 3 • Various

... in a parenthetical section to expand and render rather more concrete this idea of the species as one divaricating flow of blood, by an appeal to its arithmetical aspect. I do not know if it has ever occurred to the reader to compute the number of his living ancestors at some definite ...

— First and Last Things • H. G. Wells

... pause, and then a quick sharp explosion that seemed to fill and expand both rooms until the windows were almost lifted from their casements, a hysterical inarticulate cry from Lacy, the violent opening of a door, hurried voices, and the tramping of many feet in the passage. I sprang out of bed, partly dressed myself, ...

— The Heritage of Dedlow Marsh and Other Tales • Bret Harte

... passion had not been deaf! That misconception would have given way to inquiry! That your rigorous heart, if it could not itself be softened (moderating the power you had obtained over every one) had permitted other hearts more indulgently to expand! ...

— Clarissa Harlowe, Volume 9 (of 9) - The History Of A Young Lady • Samuel Richardson

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