Verb

(en verb)

(label) To change (something) from a smaller form and/or size to a larger one.

(label) To increase the extent, number, volume or scope of (something).

* (John Milton) (1608-1674)

Then with expanded wings he steers his flight.

(label) To express (something) at length and/or in detail.

To rewrite (an expression) as a longer, yet equivalent sum of terms.

To multiply both the numerator and the denominator of a fraction by the same natural number yielding a fraction of equal value

(label) To (be) change(d) from a smaller form/size to a larger one.

(label) To (be) increase(d) in extent, number, volume or scope.

(label) To speak or write at length or in detail.

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(label) To feel generous or optimistic.

Verb

(en verb)

To extend or expand, as from internal pressure; to swell

*

(transitive, reflexive, archaic) To extend; to stretch out; to spread out.

* 1662 Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Dialogue 2):

These impure and frail matters are conteined within the angust concave of the Lunar Orb, above which with uninterrupted Series the things Celestial distend themselves.

* Milton

But say, what mean those coloured streaks in heaven / Distended as the brow of God appeased?

To cause to swell.

(biology) To cause gravidity.