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Verbs (14)

enlarge

v. become larger or bigger

enlarge

v. make larger; "She enlarged the flower beds"

blow up, enlarge, magnify

v. make large; "blow up an image"

elaborate, lucubrate, expatiate, exposit, enlarge, flesh out, expand, expound, dilate

v. add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing; "She elaborated on the main ideas in her dissertation"

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Fuzzynyms (104)

develop, make grow

v. cause to grow and differentiate in ways conforming to its natural development; "The perfect climate here develops the grain"; "He developed a new kind of apple"

inflate

v. increase the amount or availability of, creating a rise in value; "inflate the currency"

extend

v. open or straighten out; unbend; "Can we extend the legs of this dining table?"

distend

v. cause to expand as it by internal pressure; "The gas distended the animal's body"

swell

v. increase in size, magnitude, number, or intensity; "The music swelled to a crescendo"

elaborate, work out

v. work out in detail; "elaborate a plan"

swell, swell up, intumesce, tumefy, tumesce

v. expand abnormally; "The bellies of the starving children are swelling"

increase

v. become bigger or greater in amount; "The amount of work increased"

explain, explicate

v. make plain and comprehensible; "He explained the laws of physics to his students"

puff, puff up, blow up, puff out

v. to swell or cause to enlarge, "Her faced puffed up from the drugs"; "puffed out chests"

bloat

v. become bloated or swollen or puff up; "The dead man's stomach was bloated"

inflate

v. cause prices to rise by increasing the available currency or credit; "The war inflated the economy"

spread

v. cover by spreading something over; "spread the bread with cheese"

extend

v. open or straighten out; unbend; "Can we extend the legs of this dining table?"

inflate

v. increase the amount or availability of, creating a rise in value; "inflate the currency"

overstate, exaggerate, overdraw, hyperbolize, hyperbolise, magnify, amplify

v. to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth; "tended to romanticize and exaggerate this `gracious Old South' imagery"

magnify, amplify

v. increase in size, volume or significance; "Her terror was magnified in her mind"

extend

v. open or straighten out; unbend; "Can we extend the legs of this dining table?"

extend

v. prolong the time allowed for payment of; "extend the loan"

develop

v. make visible by means of chemical solutions; "Please develop this roll of film for me"

refine

v. make more precise or increase the discriminatory powers of; "refine a method of analysis"; "refine the constant in the equation"

transfigure, glorify, spiritualize

v. elevate or idealize, in allusion to Christ's transfiguration

embroider, pad, lard, embellish, aggrandize, aggrandise, blow up, dramatize, dramatise

v. add details to

glamorize, glamourise, glamourize, glamorise

v. make glamorous and attractive; "This new wallpaper really glamorizes the living room!"

romanticize, romanticise

v. make romantic in style; "The designer romanticized the little black dress"

enhance

v. make better or more attractive; "This sauce will enhance the flavor of the meat"

lift, raise, elevate

v. raise in rank or condition; "The new law lifted many people from poverty"

articulate, enunciate, vocalize, vocalise

v. express or state clearly

explain

v. define; "The committee explained their plan for fund-raising to the Dean"

comment

v. explain or interpret something

declare

v. state emphatically and authoritatively; "He declared that he needed more money to carry out the task he was charged with"

propound

v. put forward, as of an idea

protest

v. affirm or avow formally or solemnly; "The suspect protested his innocence"

define

v. determine the nature of; "What defines a good wine?"

rede, interpret

v. give an interpretation or explanation to

lecture, talk

v. deliver a lecture or talk; "She will talk at Rutgers next week"; "Did you ever lecture at Harvard?"

speak, talk

v. use language; "the baby talks already"; "the prisoner won't speak"; "they speak a strange dialect"

say

v. utter aloud; "She said `Hello' to everyone in the office"

affirm, verify, assert, avow, aver, swan, swear

v. to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true; "Before God I swear I am innocent"

claim, take

v. lay claim to; as of an idea; "She took credit for the whole idea"

contend, postulate

v. maintain or assert; "He contended that Communism had no future"

describe, depict, draw

v. give a description of; "He drew an elaborate plan of attack"

buy

v. accept as true; "I can't buy this story"

narrate

v. provide commentary for a film, for example

recount

v. count again; "We had to recount all the votes after an accusation of fraud was made"

profess

v. receive into a religious order or congregation

pronounce, label, judge

v. pronounce judgment on; "They labeled him unfit to work here"

relate

v. give an account of; "The witness related the events"

relate

v. have or establish a relationship to; "She relates well to her peers"

report

v. make known to the authorities; "One student reported the other to the principal"

report, turn in, inform on

v. make known to the authorities; "One student reported the other to the principal"

Synonyms (1)

expand

v. make bigger or wider in size, volume, or quantity; "expand the house by adding another wing"

Antonyms (13)

reduce, scale down

v. make smaller; "reduce an image"

shrink, reduce

v. reduce in size; reduce physically; "Hot water will shrink the sweater"; "Can you shrink this image?"

decrease, lessen, minify

v. make smaller; "He decreased his staff"

moisten, wash, dampen

v. make moist; "The dew moistened the meadows"

criticize, criticise

v. act as a critic; "Those who criticize others often are not perfect, either"

foreshorten

v. shorten lines in a drawing so as to create an illusion of depth

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