expanded
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- v extend in one or more directions
- v become larger in size or volume or quantity
his business expanded rapidly - v make bigger or wider in size, volume, or quantity
- v grow vigorously
- v exaggerate or make bigger
- v add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing
- v expand the influence of
- a increased in extent or size or bulk or scope
- It began with venting his disgust for the melodramatic drivel he saw on television, then expanded to include riffs about false advertising and polluting consumer products.
- Riders for Health recently expanded into Gambia and Nigeria and diversified its fleet to include refrigerated trucks, minivans and ambulances.
- Built, burned, rebuilt, expanded, abandoned, revived: James Fort never stayed the same for very long.