Definition of expand

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Expand (v. i.) To become widely opened, spread apart, dilated, distended, or enlarged; as, flowers expand in the spring; metals expand by heat; the heart expands with joy..

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Dilate :: Dilate (v. t.) To expand; to distend; to enlarge or extend in all directions; to swell; -- opposed to contract; as, the air dilates the lungs; air is dilated by increase of heat..
Balloon :: Balloon (v. i.) To expand, or puff out, like a balloon..
Display :: Display (v. t.) To unfold; to spread wide; to expand; to stretch out; to spread.
Evergreen :: Evergreen (a.) Remaining unwithered through the winter, or retaining unwithered leaves until the leaves of the next year are expanded, as pines cedars, hemlocks, and the like..
Dilator :: Dilator (n.) An instrument for expanding a part; as, a urethral dilator..
Dilate :: Dilate (a.) Extensive; expanded.
Hoop :: Hoop (n.) A circle, or combination of circles, of thin whalebone, metal, or other elastic material, used for expanding the skirts of ladies' dresses; crinoline; -- used chiefly in the plural..
Tubulous :: Tubulous (a.) Resembling, or in the form of, a tube; longitudinally hollow; specifically (Bot.), having a hollow cylindrical corolla, often expanded or toothed at the border; as, a tubulose flower..
Dilator :: Dilator (n.) One who, or that which, widens or expands..
Hysteranthous :: Hysteranthous (a.) Having the leaves expand after the flowers have opened.
Sea Orange :: Sea orange () A large American holothurian (Lophothuria Fabricii) having a bright orange convex body covered with finely granulated scales. Its expanded tentacles are bright red.
Expansion :: Expansion (n.) The act of expanding or spreading out; the condition of being expanded; dilation; enlargement.
Dispread :: Dispread (v. i.) To extend or expand itself.
Expatiate :: Expatiate (v. t.) To expand; to spread; to extend; to diffuse; to broaden.
Florescent :: Florescent (a.) Expanding into flowers; blossoming.
Full-blown :: Full-blown (a.) Fully expanded, as a blossom; as, a full-bloun rose..
Bell-mouthed :: Bell-mouthed (a.) Expanding at the mouth; as, a bell-mouthed gun..
Open :: Open (v. i.) To expand; to spread out; to be disclosed; as, the harbor opened to our view..
Expand :: Expand (v. t.) To lay open by extending; to open wide; to spread out; to diffuse; as, a flower expands its leaves..
Spoonbill :: Spoonbill (n.) Any one of several species of wading birds of the genera Ajaja and Platalea, and allied genera, in which the long bill is broadly expanded and flattened at the tip..
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