fatten up
side-handed
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burgeon
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breadthen
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flourish
balloon
accrescent
augmentable
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burnish
enlarge
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spread
expansible
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expandedly
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bigify
uncollapse
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boom
extension
bulk
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aggrandize
multidecade
hypertrophy
expansionist
expandability
extend
wax
size
hyperexpansion
grow
ratchet up
stretch
gain
expansionary
outspread
burgeoning
expander
crescentic
decade-long
multiply
leaven
rocket up
rewiden
get up
broaden
overexpand
Tescoization
jacked up
gather
huff
reexpansion
upscale
enlargingly
unnarrow
growingly
expansibly
enlargen
largen
upping
reenlarge
assurgent
growing
increasement
expandedness
plus
stretching
development
incremence
industrywide
increasing
postexpansion
grow like a weed
side-handed
elaborated
expansive
expandable
expansional
accrescent
augmentable
expansile
expansible
expandible
augmentative
multidecade
expansionary
crescentic
decade-long
jacked up
assurgent
industrywide
increasing
postexpansion
expandingly
expandedly
enlargingly
growingly
expansibly
industrywide
expandingness
boom
extension
expansionist
expandability
hyperexpansion
burgeoning
expander
Tescoization
reexpansion
upping
growing
increasement
expandedness
stretching
development
incremence
fatten up
dilate
reexpand
burgeon
breadthen
prosper
flourish
balloon
embiggen
forspread
burnish
enlarge
open up
spread
accelerate
bigify
uncollapse
develop
shoot
bulk
augment
aggrandize
hypertrophy
extend
wax
size
grow
ratchet up
stretch
gain
outspread
multiply
leaven
rocket up
rewiden
get up
broaden
overexpand
gather
huff
upscale
unnarrow
enlargen
largen
reenlarge
plus
grow like a weed
adj
verb
verb
- To develop; to make thrive; to expand.
- To thrive or grow well.
- To make bold and sweeping, fanciful, or wanton movements, by way of ornament, parade, bravado, etc.; to play with fantastic and irregular motion.
- To make bold, sweeping movements with.
- To be in a period of greatest influence.
- To prosper or fare well.
- To adorn with beautiful figures or rhetoric; to ornament with anything showy; to embellish.
- To use florid language; to indulge in rhetorical figures and lofty expressions.
- To execute an irregular or fanciful strain of music, by way of ornament or prelude.
- To make ornamental strokes with the pen; to write graceful, decorative figures.
noun
verb
- To increase or expand rapidly.
- Of an aircraft: to plunge alternately up and down.
- To go up or voyage in a balloon.
- To inflate like a balloon.
- To strike (a ball) so that it flies high in the air.
- To take up in, or as if in, a balloon.
noun
- Such an object designed to transport people or equipment through the air.
- An inflatable buoyant object, often (but not necessarily) round and flexible.
- A bomb or shell.
- The outline enclosing words represented as coming from the mouth of a pictured figure.
- A round vessel, usually with a short neck, to hold or receive whatever is distilled; a glass vessel of a spherical form.
- A type of glass cup, sometimes used for brandy.
- A woman's breast.
- A small container for illicit drugs made from a condom or the finger of a latex glove, etc.
- A speech bubble.
- Synonym of balloon payment
- Such an object as a child’s toy or party decoration.
- A sac inserted into part of the body for therapeutic reasons; such as angioplasty.
- A ball or globe on the top of a pillar, church, etc.
verb
- Of a thing: to increase in size; to expand, to spread out, to swell.
- To appear positive and highly respected.
- To become bright, glossy, and smooth; to brighten, to gleam, to shine forth.
- Of a person's body: to grow large or stout; to fatten, to fill out.
- Of a stag: to remove the velvet (“skin and fine fur”) from (its antlers) by rubbing them against something; to velvet.
- To make (something, such as a surface) bright, shiny, and smooth by, or (by extension) as if by, rubbing; to polish, to shine.
- To make (someone or something) appear positive and highly respected.
noun
verb
- To grow larger.
- To extend the time allowed for compliance with (an order or rule).
- To increase the capacity of; to expand; to give free scope or greater scope to; also, to dilate, as with joy, affection, etc.
- To speak or write at length upon or on (some subject); expand; elaborate
- To get more astern or parallel with the vessel's course; to draw aft; said of the wind.
- To make (something) larger.
verb
verb
- To take up a larger area or space; to expand, be extended.
- To disperse, to scatter or distribute over a given area.
- To stretch out, open out (a material etc.) so that it more fully covers a given area of space.
- To cover (something) with a thin layer of some substance, as of butter.
- To prepare; to set and furnish with provisions.
- To smear, to distribute in a thin layer.
- To proliferate; to become more widely present, to be disseminated.
- To disseminate; to cause to proliferate, to make (something) widely known or present.
- To extend (individual rays, limbs etc.); to stretch out in varying or opposing directions.
- To open one’s legs, especially for sexual favours.
noun
- The difference between the prices of two similar items.
- An unlimited expanse of discontinuous points.
- The difference between the wholesale and retail prices.
- The difference between the price of a futures month and the price of another month of the same commodity.
- The purchase of a futures contract of one delivery month against the sale of another futures delivery month of the same commodity.
- Excessive width of the trails of ink written on overly absorbent paper.
- Two facing pages in a book, newspaper etc.
- An item in a newspaper or magazine that occupies more than one column or page.
- A piece of material used as a cover (such as a bedspread).
- Any form of food designed to be spread, such as butters or jams.
- The difference between bidding and asking price.
- The surface in proportion to the depth of a cut gemstone.
- An arbitrage transaction of the same commodity in two markets, executed to take advantage of a profit from price discrepancies.
- The act of spreading.
- An expanse of land.
- Something that has been spread.
- A set of multiple torpedoes launched on side-by-side, slowly-diverging paths toward one or more enemy ships.
- Food improvised by inmates from various ingredients to relieve the tedium of prison food.
- A numerical difference.
- The purchase of one delivery month of one commodity against the sale of that same delivery month of a different commodity.
- A large meal, especially one laid out on a table.
- A layout, pattern or design of cards arranged for a reading.
- A large tract of land used to raise livestock; a cattle ranch.
adj
verb
- Grow; increase.
- To become faster; to begin to move more quickly.
- To enable a student to finish a course of study in less than normal time.
- To quicken the natural or ordinary progression or process of.
- To cause to move faster; to quicken the motion of; to add to the speed of.
- To cause a change of velocity.
- To hasten, as the occurrence of an event.
adj
verb
- To advance; to further; to promote the growth of.
- To progress through a sequence of stages.
- To bring out images latent in photographic film.
- To acquire something usually over a period of time.
- To place one's pieces actively.
- To change with a specific direction, progress.
- To create.
- To cause a ball to become more open and available to be played on later. Usually by moving it away from the cushion, or by opening a pack.
- To change the form of (an algebraic expression, etc.) by executing certain indicated operations without changing the value.
verb
- To grow; to advance.
- To begin to speak.
- To move very quickly and suddenly.
- To send out or forth, especially with a rapid or sudden motion; to cast with the hand; to hurl; to discharge; to emit.
- To plane straight; to fit by planing.
- To germinate; to bud; to sprout.
- To shoot the moon.
- To ejaculate.
- To carry out a seismic survey with geophones in an attempt to detect oil.
- To photograph.
- To push or thrust a bolt quickly; hence, to open a lock.
- To make the stated score.
- To hunt on (a piece of land); to kill game in or on.
- To fire (a weapon that releases a projectile).
- To inject a drug (such as heroin) intravenously.
- To throw dice.
- To fire a projectile at (a person or target).
- To variegate as if by sprinkling or intermingling; to color in spots or patches.ᵂ
- To dismiss or do away with.
- To hunt birds, etc. with a gun.
- To lunge.
- To deviate from kayfabe, either intentionally or accidentally; to actually connect with unchoreographed fighting blows and maneuvers, or speak one's mind (instead of an agreed script).
- To carry out, or attempt to carry out (an approach to an airport runway).
- To tip (something, especially coal) down a chute.
- To film.
- To cause a weapon to discharge a projectile.
- To travel or ride on (breaking waves) rowards the shore.
- To move ahead by force of momentum, as a sailing vessel when the helm is put hard alee.
- To push or thrust forward; to project; to protrude; often with out.
- To penetrate, like a missile; to dart with a piercing sensation.
- To fire (a projectile).
- To send to someone.
- To discharge a missile; said of a weapon.
- To protrude; to jut; to project; to extend.
- To measure the distance and direction to (a point).
- To go over or pass quickly through.
intj
noun
- A hunt or shooting competition.
- A rush of water; a rapid.
- The act of taking all point cards in one hand.
- An inclined plane, either artificial or natural, down which timber, coal, ore, etc., are caused to slide; a chute.
- A seismic survey carried out with geophones in an attempt to detect oil.
- An event that is unscripted or legitimate.
- The emerging stem and embryonic leaves of a new plant.
- A weft thread shot through the shed by the shuttle; a pick.
- A shoat; a young pig.
- A vein of ore running in the same general direction as the lode.
- A photography session.
- The act of shooting; the discharge of a missile; a shot.
noun
- A rapid expansion or increase.
- A floating barrier used to obstruct navigation, for military or other purposes; or used for the containment of an oil spill or to control the flow of logs from logging operations.
- The section of the arm on a backhoe closest to the tractor.
- A period of prosperity, growth, progress, or high market activity.
- A movable pole used to support a microphone or camera.
- A wishbone-shaped piece of windsurfing equipment.
- An instance of booming.
- One of the calls of certain monkeys or birds.
- A spar extending the foot of a sail; a spar rigged outboard from a ship's side to which boats are secured in harbour.
- A microphone supported on such a pole.
- A low-pitched, resonant sound, such as of an explosion.
- A horizontal member of a crane or derrick, used for lifting.
- The longest element of a Yagi antenna, on which the other, smaller ones are transversally mounted.
- A gymnastics apparatus similar to a balance beam.
intj
- The sound of a bass drum beating.
- Used to suggest the sound of an explosion.
- Used to suggest something happening suddenly and unexpectedly.
- The sound of a cannon firing.
verb
- To make a loud, hollow, resonant sound.
- To flourish, grow, or progress.
- To make something boom.
- To subject to a sonic boom.
- To extend, or push, with a boom or pole.
- Of a Eurasian bittern, to make its deep, resonant territorial vocalisation.
- To rapidly adjust the evaluation of a position away from zero, indicating a likely win or loss.
- To exclaim with force, to shout, to thunder.
- To rush with violence and noise, as a ship under a press of sail, before a free wind.
- To raise or lower with a crane boom.
noun
- act of expanding in scope; making more widely available
- a mutually agreed delay in the date set for the completion of a job or payment of a debt
- the spreading of something (a belief or practice) into new regions
- an educational opportunity provided by colleges and universities to people who are not enrolled as regular students
- act of stretching or straightening out a flexed limb
- a string of characters beginning with a period and followed by one or more letters; the optional second part of a PC computer filename
- the most direct or specific meaning of a word or expression; the class of objects that an expression refers to
- the ability to raise the working leg high in the air
- amount or degree or range to which something extends
- an additional telephone set that is connected to the same telephone line
- an addition to the length of something
- an addition that extends a main building
verb
- To grow in size; to swell or expand.
- To appear or seem to be, as to bulk or extent.
- To put or hold in bulk.
- To gain body mass by means of diet, exercise, etc.
noun
- A hypothetical higher-dimensional space within which our own four-dimensional universe may exist.
- The major part of something.
- Unpackaged goods when transported in large volumes, e.g. coal, ore or grain.
- Dietary fibre.
- Size, specifically, volume.
- a cargo or any items moved or communicated in the manner of cargo.
- Excess body mass, especially muscle.
- A period where one tries to gain muscle.
- Any huge body or structure.
adj
verb
noun
verb
- To increase in extent.
- To reenlist for a further period.
- To increase in quantity by weakening or adulterating additions.
- To value, as lands taken by a writ of extent in satisfaction of a debt; to assign by writ of extent.
- To straighten (a limb).
- Of a class: to be an extension or subtype of, or to be based on, a prototype or a more abstract class.
- To cause to increase in extent.
- To cause to last for a longer period of time.
- To possess a certain extent; to cover an amount of space.
- To bestow; to offer; to impart; to apply.
verb
- To grow.
- To defeat utterly.
- To move from low tide to high tide.
- To remove hair at the roots from (a part of the body) by coating the skin with a film of wax that is then pulled away sharply.
- To kill, especially to murder a person.
- To apply wax to (something, such as a shoe, a floor, a car, or an apple), usually to make it shiny.
- To increasingly assume the specified characteristic.
- To appear larger each night as a progression from a new moon to a full moon.
adj
noun
- Any oily, water-resistant, solid or semisolid substance; normally long-chain hydrocarbons, alcohols or esters.
- Any preparation containing wax, used as a polish.
- Beeswax.
- The process of growing.
- Earwax.
- A thick syrup made by boiling down the sap of the sugar maple and then cooling it.
- A type of drugs with as main ingredients weed oil and butane; hash oil.
- The phonograph record format for music.
verb
- To take a greater size; to increase in size.
- To apply glue or other primer to a surface which is to be painted.
- To take the height of men, in order to place them in the ranks according to their stature.
- To adjust the size of; to make a certain size.
- To sift (pieces of ore or metal) in order to separate the finer from the coarser parts.
- To approximate the dimensions, estimate the size of.
noun
- An instrument consisting of a number of perforated gauges fastened together at one end by a rivet, used for measuring the size of pearls
- The dimensions or magnitude of a thing; how big something is.
- A thin, weak glue used as primer for paper or canvas intended to be painted upon.
- A number of edges in a graph.
- Wallpaper paste.
- The thickened crust on coagulated blood.
- A specific set of dimensions for a manufactured article, especially clothing.
- Any viscous substance, such as gilder's varnish.
noun
verb
verb
- To increase.
- To get more use than expected from a limited resource.
- To make great demands on the capacity or resources of something.
- To lengthen when pulled.
- To lengthen by pulling.
- To pull tight.
- To extend one’s limbs or another part of the body in order to improve the elasticity of one's muscles
- To extend to a limit point
- To sail by the wind under press of canvas.
- To make inaccurate by exaggeration.
- To extend physically, especially from limit point to limit point.
noun
- The ability to lengthen when pulled.
- An act of stretching.
- A jail or prison term.
- Term of address for a tall person.
- A segment of a journey or route.
- A length of time.
- Extended daylight hours, especially said of the evening in springtime when compared to the shorter winter days.
- The period of the season between the trade deadline and the beginning of the playoffs.
- A stretch limousine.
- The homestretch, the final straight section of the track leading to the finish.
- A jail or prison term of one year's duration.
- A course of thought which diverts from straightforward logic, or requires extraordinary belief or exaggeration.
- A segment or length of material.
- A long reach in the direction of the ball with a foot remaining on the base by a first baseman in order to catch the ball sooner.
- A single uninterrupted sitting; a turn.
- A quick pitching delivery used when runners are on base where the pitcher slides his leg instead of lifting it.
verb
- To increase.
- To reach.
- To draw into any interest or party; to win to one's side; to conciliate.
- To be more likely to catch or overtake an individual.
- To put on weight.
- To run fast.
- To acquire possession of.
- To have or receive advantage or profit; to acquire gain; to grow rich; to advance in interest, health, or happiness; to make progress.
adv
noun
- The thing or things gained.
- The factor by which a signal is multiplied.
- The act of gaining; acquisition.
- A square or bevelled notch cut out of a girder, binding joist, or other timber which supports a floor beam, so as to receive the end of the floor beam.
adj
verb
verb
- To gather or grow larger by accretion.
- To go towards the attacking goal.
- To materialise; to grow stronger.
- To move from a sitting or lying position to a standing position; to stand up.
- To rise from one's bed (often implying to wake up).
- To bring together; to amass.
- To move in an upward direction; to ascend or climb.
- To criticise.
- To dress in a certain way, especially extravagantly.
- To annoy.
adj
- Significantly increased or expanded.
- Stimulated, excited.
- Describes a 4x4 automobile that has a "lift kit", raising the body and/or frame higher than stock.
- Under the influence of stimulants; high.
- Wrecked; damaged; ruined; injured.
- Hoisted, lifted off the ground, or propped up using a jack.
- Reprehensible; objectionable.
verb
- To enlarge; to swell up.
- To remove an opponent's piece as a forfeit for deliberately not taking a piece (often signalled by blowing on it).
- To treat with arrogance and insolence; to chide or rebuke rudely; to bully, to hector.
- To inhale psychoactive inhalants.
- To breathe heavily.
- To say in a huffy manner.
- To bluster or swell with anger, arrogance, or pride; to storm; to take offense.
noun
noun
verb
verb
verb
verb
- To increase in magnitude.
- To add; to subject to addition.
- To increase the potency of a remedy by diluting it in water and stirring.
- To provide critical feedback by giving suggestions for improvement rather than criticisms.
- To sell additional related items with an original purchase.
- To increase a correction.
- To frame in a positive light; to provide a sympathetic interpretation.
- To improve.
noun
prep
conj
adj
noun
- act of improving by expanding or enlarging or refining
- a process in which something passes by degrees to a different stage (especially a more advanced or mature stage)
- (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level
- a recent event that has some relevance for the present situation
- the act of making some area of land or water more profitable or productive or useful
- a district that has been developed to serve some purpose
- a state in which things are improving; the result of developing (as in the early part of a game of chess)
- processing a photosensitive material in order to make an image visible
- (music) the section of a composition or movement (especially in sonata form) where the major musical themes are developed and elaborated
adj
verb
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