extension, augmentation; amplification, ampliation†; aggrandizement,
spread, increment, growth, development, pullulation, swell, dilation,
rarefaction; turgescence†, turgidness, turgidity; dispansion†; obesity
&c (size) 192; hydrocephalus, hydrophthalmus [Med.]; dropsy,
tumefaction, intumescence, swelling, tumor, diastole, distension;
puffing, puffiness; inflation; pandiculation†.
dilatability, expansibility.
germination, growth, upgrowth†; accretion &c 35; budding,
gemmation†.
overgrowth, overdistension†; hypertrophy, tympany†.
bulb &c (convexity) 250; plumper; superiority of size.
[expansion of the universe] big bang; Hubble constant.
V. become larger &c (large) &c 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 &c (be superior) 33.
render larger &c (large) &c 192; expand, spread, extend,
aggrandize, distend, develop, amplify, spread out, widen, magnify,
rarefy, inflate, puff, blow up, stuff, pad, cram; exaggerate; fatten.
Adj. expanded, &c v.; larger, &c (large) &c 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 &c (convex) 250; full blown,
full grown, full formed; big &c 192; abdominous†, enchymatous†,
rhipidate†; tumefacient†, tumefying†.