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)

(obsolete) To wave or flutter smartly in the wind.

To parade, display with ostentation.

She's always flaunting her designer clothes.

(intransitive, archaic, or, literary) To show off, as with flashy clothing.

* Arbuthnot

You flaunt about the streets in your new gilt chariot.

* Alexander Pope

One flaunts in rags, one flutters in brocade.

* 1856 , ,

[T]he younger belles had begun to flaunt in the French fashions of flimsy muslins, shortwaisted— narrow-skirted.

* 1897 , ,

… and Mrs. Wix seemed to flaunt there in her finery.