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Expanding upon   /ɪkspˈændɪŋ əpˈɑn/   Listen
Expanding upon

noun
1.
Adding information or detail.  Synonym: expansion.






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"Expanding upon" Quotes from Famous Books



... now, faintly ruled with two lines of sapins, or young fir saplings,—one marking out the winter road to the Island of Orleans, and the other that from Quebec to Montmorency; and this memory recalls to me how it fell upon a certain day, the incidents of which are expanding upon my mind like those dissolving views that come up out of the dark, I set up a camp-fire just where that wood-barge nods drowsily at anchor, about a mile this side of the town. It was a sort of bivouac a man is not likely to forget ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, Number 9, July, 1858 • Various



Words linked to "Expanding upon" :   annotating, annotation, elaboration, supplementation, step-up, subjoining, subjunction, increase, amplification



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