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(v)
(transitive) To cause to increase in extent.
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(transitive) To make (something) larger.
(intransitive) To become wider or larger; to expand.
(transitive) To render larger, more extended, or more intense.
(idiomatic, intransitive) Become further apart.
(informal) To advance toward success.
(idiomatic, transitive) To complete; to create details from a basic outline, structure, or skeleton.
(adj)
Complex, detailed, or sophisticated.
(transitive) To set out the meaning of; to explain or discuss at length.
(intransitive) To increase in wealth or success; to prosper, be profitable.
To write or speak at length; to be copious in argument or discussion.
(intransitive) To thrive or grow well.
(intransitive) To be successful; to succeed; to be fortunate or prosperous; to thrive; to make gain.
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see blow, up.
To make a loud, hollow, resonant sound.
(transitive) To enlarge an object by pushing air (or a gas) into it; to raise or expand abnormally
(transitive) To stretch out, open out (a material etc.) so that it more fully covers a given area of space.
(n)
The act of extending; a stretching out; enlargement in length, breadth, or time; an increase.
(intransitive) To become broad or broader.
(transitive) To make wide or wider.
(ergative) To become larger, to increase in magnitude.
The act of becoming broader.
The action of the verb widen.
An act or instance of making something larger.
An increase in size, number, value, or strength.
The act of one who enlarges.
(intransitive) (of a quantity, etc.) To become larger or greater, to greaten.
growth; increase
The apparent enlargement of an object in an image, for example using a lens, or by zooming in on a computer.
On the increase.
The process by which something is spanned.
(transitive) To make longer, to extend the length of.
(transitive) To lengthen by pulling.
Stretched out or pulled out; expanded.
(transitive) To increase; to make larger or supplement.
(transitive) To lengthen in time; to extend the duration of.
(transitive, of animals or plants) To cause to continue or multiply by generation, or successive production.
(transitive) To spread, spread apart, or spread out (something); to expand.
An improvement or supplement that tends to increase a sense of esteem.
The act by which something is spread.
To advance, increase, augment, make larger, more intense, stronger etc.
(intransitive) To become widespread.
(ambitransitive) To increase (something) in extent or intensity; to intensify or step up.
Comprehensive in scope or extent.
In the process of development.
(transitive) To make strong or stronger; to add strength to; to increase the strength of; to fortify.
(uncountable) The process of developing; growth, directed change.
(physical) To cause to rise; to lift or elevate.
(transitive) To advocate or urge on behalf of (something or someone); to attempt to popularize or sell by means of advertising or publicity.
To augment or make something greater.
(intransitive) To become intense, or more intense; to act with increasing power or energy.
The process by which something is strengthened.
(transitive) To make as large as possible.
Nurturing; cultivation; providing sustenance and protection for a living thing from conception to maturity.
An intensification.
To make or become physically unobstructed, uncovered, etc.
(intransitive) To move, or appear to move, physically upwards relative to the ground.
(transitive) To improve, usually applied to technology, generally by complete replacement of one or more components.
In a version or form that has been improved or made better than some other standard form.
(transitive) To strengthen, especially by addition or augmentation.
The act by which something is furthered; furtherance.
To help the progress of (something); to further.
(comparative form of far) More distant; relatively distant.
Something that helps, or adds power or effectiveness; assistance.
(transitive) To form (something) by combining materials or parts.
(transitive) To make (something) better; to increase the value or productivity (of something).
(transitive, intransitive) To make the scope of (business, investments, etc.) diverse, especially so as to balance and mitigate risks.
That tends to improve someone or something (especially (dated) to educate or morally better a person).
(transitive) To make (someone or something) rich or richer. [from 14th c.]
(transitive) To proceed with (doing an activity); to prolong (an activity).
(transitive) To make deep or deeper
(transitive) To advance; to further; to promote the growth of.
(transitive) To create.
To defeat in combat; to subjugate.
To encourage into action.
(transitive) To travel somewhere in search of discovery.
To provide or make a supplement to something.
(intransitive, now literary) To live; to reside.
To make easy or easier.
(ambitransitive) To combine into a single unit; to group together or join.
The totality, the full amount or number which completes something.
To bring into a group, class, set, or total as a (new) part or member.
(intransitive) To rest in a horizontal position on a surface.
(transitive) To make known; to show (by speech, writing etc.).
To infer or induce from specific cases to more general cases or principles.
To increase in size, to scale up.
(transitive) To make (something) larger or more important.
(transitive) To double, especially to double again; to increase considerably; to multiply; to intensify.
(ambitransitive) To improve in accuracy, delicacy, or excellence.
To move fast with a humming noise.
(intransitive) To extend or expand, as from internal pressure; to swell
(said of a country) wealthy and industrialized; not third-world.
(countable) A closed structure with walls and a roof.
(transitive) To increase the amount, degree or number of (something).
Of two (or, rarely, more than two) things: the larger in size (bigger), in value, in importance etc.
(transitive) To place something over or upon, as to conceal or protect.
That promotes or exhibits expansion; expansionist.
(transitive) To nurture or bring up offspring, or to provide similar parental care to an unrelated child.
An ordered, usually numerical sequence used for measurement; means of assigning a magnitude.