All expand synonyms

verb expand

• enlarge — Make or become bigger or more extensive.
• increase — to make greater, as in number, size, strength, or quality; augment; add to: to increase taxes.
• swell — to grow in bulk, as by the absorption of moisture or the processes of growth.
• inflate — deflate
• develop — When something develops, it grows or changes over a period of time and usually becomes more advanced, complete, or severe.
• grow — to increase by natural development, as any living organism or part by assimilation of nutriment; increase in size or substance.
• magnify — to increase the apparent size of, as a lens does.
• multiply — to make many or manifold; increase the number, quantity, etc., of.
• augment — To augment something means to make it larger, stronger, or more effective by adding something to it.
• bolster — If you bolster something such as someone's confidence or courage, you increase it.
• broaden — When something broadens, it becomes wider.
• open — not closed or barred at the time, as a doorway by a door, a window by a sash, or a gateway by a gate: to leave the windows open at night.
• spread — to draw, stretch, or open out, especially over a flat surface, as something rolled or folded (often followed by out).
• widen — Make or become wider.
• aggrandize — To aggrandize someone means to make them seem richer, more powerful, and more important than they really are. To aggrandize a building means to make it more impressive.
• amplify — If you amplify a sound, you make it louder, usually by using electronic equipment.
• bloat — to swell or cause to swell, as with a liquid, air, or wind
• burgeon — If something burgeons, it grows or develops rapidly.
• detail — The details of something are its individual features or elements.
• diffuse — to pour out and spread, as a fluid.
• dilate — to make wider or larger; cause to expand.
• distend — Swell or cause to swell by pressure from inside.
• elaboration — The act or process of producing or refining with labor; improvement by successive operations; refinement.
• embellish — Make (something) more attractive by the addition of decorative details or features.
• fatten — to make fat.
• heighten — to increase the height of; make higher.
• hike — to walk or march a great distance, especially through rural areas, for pleasure, exercise, military training, or the like.
• lengthen — to make longer; make greater in length.
• mount — to go up; climb; ascend: to mount stairs.
• mushroom — any of various fleshy fungi including the toadstools, puffballs, coral fungi, morels, etc.
• pad — Packet Assembler/Disassembler
• piggyback — on the back or shoulders: The little girl rode piggyback on her father.
• prolong — to lengthen out in time; extend the duration of; cause to continue longer: to prolong one's stay abroad.
• protract — to draw out or lengthen, especially in time; extend the duration of; prolong.
• pyramid — Architecture. (in ancient Egypt) a quadrilateral masonry mass having smooth, steeply sloping sides meeting at an apex, used as a tomb. (in ancient Egypt and pre-Columbian Central America) a quadrilateral masonry mass, stepped and sharply sloping, used as a tomb or a platform for a temple.
• stretch — to draw out or extend (oneself, a body, limbs, wings, etc.) to the full length or extent (often followed by out): to stretch oneself out on the ground.
• thicken — make thicker
• unfold — to bring out of a folded state; spread or open out: Unfold your arms.
• unfurl — to spread or shake out from a furled state, as a sail or a flag; unfold.
• unravel — to separate or disentangle the threads of (a woven or knitted fabric, a rope, etc.).
• unroll — to open or spread out (something rolled or coiled): to unroll a bolt of fabric.
• wax — a fit of anger; rage.
• beef up — If you beef up something, you increase, strengthen, or improve it.
• blow up — If someone blows something up or if it blows up, it is destroyed by an explosion.
• bulk up — If someone or something bulks up or bulks out, they become bigger or heavier.
• fill out — to make full; put as much as can be held into: to fill a jar with water.
• outspread — spread out; stretched out: outspread arms.
• soup up — a liquid food made by boiling or simmering meat, fish, or vegetables with various added ingredients.
• upsurge — to surge up; increase; rise: Water upsurged. Crime upsurged.
• build up — If you build up something or if it builds up, it gradually becomes bigger, for example because more is added to it.