expand

Meanings

• extend in one or more directions
  • "The dough expands"
• become larger in size or volume or quantity
  • "his business expanded rapidly"
• make bigger or wider in size, volume, or quantity
  • "expand the house by adding another wing"
• grow vigorously
• exaggerate or make bigger
• add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing
• expand the influence of

Synonyms

amplify, blow up, boom, dilate, elaborate, enlarge, expatiate, exposit, expound, extend, flesh out, flourish, inflate, lucubrate, spread out, thrive