expansion

Roget category 194

2. Words relating to space
› 2.2. Dimensions
›› 2.2.1. General dimensions

#194. Expansion

noun

expansion — increase of size etc. 35 — enlargement, extension, augmentation — amplification, ampliation^† — aggrandizement, spread, increment, growth, development, pullulation, swell, dilation, rarefaction — turgescence^†, turgidness, turgidity — dispansion^† — obesity etc. (size) 192 — hydrocephalus, hydrophthalmus [Med.] — dropsy, tumefaction, intumescence, swelling, tumor, diastole, distension — puffing, puffiness — inflation — pandiculation^†.
dilatability, expansibility.
germination, growth, upgrowth^† — accretion etc. 35 — budding, gemmation^†.
overgrowth, overdistension^† — hypertrophy, tympany^†.
bulb etc. (convexity) 250 — plumper — superiority of size.
[expansion of the universe] big bang — Hubble constant.

verb

become larger etc. (large) etc. 192 — expand, widen, enlarge, extend, grow, increase, incrassate^†, swell, gather — fill out — deploy, take open order, dilate, stretch, distend, spread — mantle, wax — grow up, spring up — bud, bourgeon [Fr.], shoot, sprout, germinate, put forth, vegetate, pullulate, open, burst forth — gain flesh, gather flesh — outgrow — spread like wildfire, overrun.
be larger than — surpass etc. (be superior) 33.
render larger etc. (large) etc. 192 — expand, spread, extend, aggrandize, distend, develop, amplify, spread out, widen, magnify, rarefy, inflate, puff, blow up, stuff, pad, cram — exaggerate — fatten.

adjective

expanded, etc. v. — larger, etc. (large) etc. 192 — swollen — expansive — wide open, wide spread — flabelliform^† — overgrown, exaggerated, bloated, fat, turgid, tumid, hypertrophied, dropsical — pot bellied, swag bellied^† — edematous, oedematous^†, obese, puffy, pursy^†, blowzy, bigswoln^†, distended — patulous — bulbous etc. (convex) 250 — full blown, full grown, full formed — big etc. 192 — abdominous^†, enchymatous^†, rhipidate^† — tumefacient^†, tumefying^†.

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