EXPANDS Synonyms: 123 Similar and Opposite Words

expands

verb

Definition of expands next

present tense third-person singular of expand

as in develops

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 increases

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 extends

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 rises

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

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Recent Examples of expands Drone delivery expands across the Charlotte region The Queen City is no stranger to drone deliveries. —

Chase Jordan march 27, Charlotte Observer, 27 Mar. 2026 The find helps explain water’s odd behavior and its unusual properties, including the reason ice cubes float and how liquid water expands as its temperature drops below 39 degrees Fahrenheit (four degrees Celsius). —

Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 27 Mar. 2026 The first concept expands the lottery to 18 teams and flattens odds heavily, with the bottom 10 teams each sitting at 8% to land the top pick and the remaining 20% distributed among the next eight teams, plus a drawing for all 18 picks. —

C.j. Holmes, New York Daily News, 27 Mar. 2026 Concerns about insider trading are growing as betting on prediction markets expands to cover events such as regulatory decisions. —

David Greising, Chicago Tribune, 27 Mar. 2026 Temperatures were forecast to linger around 30 or 40 degrees above average in a number of southwestern and Central states, continuing a trend that began earlier in the week as a massive heat wave expands further into the western two-thirds of the country, said CBS News meteorologist Nikki Nolan. —

Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 26 Mar. 2026 Minervini, who hosted more than half of Marlins studio shows in past years, will split anchor duties with Mish, whose role expands. —

Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 26 Mar. 2026 Much of the Jackson area is built atop a soil layer known as Yazoo clay that expands in wet weather and contracts in times of drought. —

ABC News, 26 Mar. 2026 The result is a boundary-pushing and confrontational experience that expands both the possibilities of VR and our understanding of how intimate stories can be shared and experienced. —

Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 20 Mar. 2026

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Unsettled pattern develops A stationary front will linger through the end of the week bringing a chance of rain each day from Thursday through the weekend.

— Gregory Padgett, CBS News, 30 Mar. 2026
While Japan has domestic oil reserves and is procuring crude from the United States, Zipair told CNBC in an email that supply conditions could still become more challenging depending on how the conflict develops.

— Sydney Goh, CNBC, 30 Mar. 2026