EXPANDED Synonyms: 143 Similar and Opposite Words

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as in blown up

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verb

past tense of expand

as in developed

to express more fully and in greater detail an article on the First Ladies that the author later expanded into a book

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as in increased

to make greater in size, amount, or number we had to expand the list of wedding guests several times in order to accommodate all the relatives Mother wouldn't dream of excluding

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as in extended

to arrange the parts of (something) over a wider area a spare leaf for those times when we have to expand the dining table to accommodate extra guests

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as in accelerated

to become greater in extent, volume, amount, or number water expands when it becomes frozen

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Recent Examples of expanded

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As technological access and capacity expanded, so too did use-cases. —

Literary Hub, 28 May 2026 Under pressure, the government expanded access to the SIM cards to some professions during the shutdown. —

Amir-Hussein Radjy, Los Angeles Times, 28 May 2026 In parallel, concierge and direct primary care practices have expanded greatly in recent years. —

Robert Pearl, Forbes.com, 27 May 2026 As Kingpins noted ahead of the show, China has expanded from solely a manufacturing powerhouse into a culture and consumer behavior shaper. —

Sj Guest Editorial, Footwear News, 27 May 2026 Under pressure, the government expanded access to the SIM cards to some professions during the shutdown. —

ABC News, 27 May 2026 In his Texas speech, Thomas expanded on that idea. —

Ruth Marcus, New Yorker, 21 May 2026 The league expanded for the first time this season, adding teams in Vancouver and Seattle. —

Hailey Salvian, New York Times, 21 May 2026 The system first expanded significantly in 2019, when the UK opened access from just UK and EU nationals to travelers from countries including the United States, Canada, Australia, Japan, New Zealand, Singapore, and South Korea. —

Bailey Berg, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 May 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for expanded

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Anishinaabe emphasis on unity and autonomy became more important as some settlers developed an increasingly narrow vision of solidarity, one excluding Indigenous people and even British and colonial officials.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 26 May 2026
Although Parker, his primary idol and mentor, urged him to stay clean, Rollins developed a heroin habit that eventually led to his arrest and 10-month imprisonment.

— Don Heckman, Los Angeles Times, 26 May 2026