What are the antonyms for EXPAND?
- tighten, hide, decrease, cut, hinder, condense, depress, withhold, fall, dissipate, fail, falter, let out, lessen, shorten, lower, abbreviate, collapse, halt, cut down, dwindle, compress, restrict, stop, shrink, curtail, contract, squander, amputate, epitomize, outline, fold, debase, spend, humble, summarize, deflate, degrade, boil down, shrivel, reduce, end, compact, tangle, lose, disgrace, foreshorten, disperse, waste, simplify, retrench, minify, diminish, narrow, close, abridge, belittle, thin.
Synonyms for EXPAND
- piggybacking,
- spread,
- fan out,
- spin out,
- spin off,
- add to,
- souped up,
- bugged out,
- pile up,
- piggyback,
- Overdrawing,
- sorting out,
- held forth,
- magnification,
- emaciates,
- progress,
- unbraided,
- mounting,
- diffuses,
- hike up,
- beef up,
- scare up,
- put out patrol,
- gain weight,
- rounding out,
- lit up,
- concentrate,
- coming apart,
- dilate,
- laid on thick,
- dig out,
- retch,
- branch off,
- making clear,
- grow,
- Re-mark,
- upsurging,
- Caked,
- characteristic,
- popped out,
- moved up,
- give a meeting,
- Suspired,
- unfurled,
- form front,
- uprise,
- lie out,
- oversize,
- Tripled,
- speed up,
- bail one out,
- Reaming,
- romance,
- coarsen,
- up,
- overfeeds,
- come to be,
- load up,
- untwining,
- be inflated,
- Tumefied,
- Tumefying,
- grew up,
- move forward,
- light up,
- Lasted,
- piggybacks,
- commentating,
- overfeeding,
- bulge,
- piles,
- pump up,
- unscrambles,
- make too much of,
- clabber,
- spring up,
- harangue,
- praise,
- plumps,
- elongate,
- blistered,
- profit,
- gel,
- clabbered,
- untwist,
- ennoble,
- stretch,
- Overdrawn,
- suspire,
- stacking up,
- become distended,
- sort out,
- get to,
- lighted up,
- uncreased,
- be on top of heap,
- diffused,
- sticks out,
- capacity,
- blobbed,
- unsnarled,
- ramify,
- roll out,
- overelaborate,
- maximize,
- Craning,
- untwined,
- belly,
- reckon,
- define,
- mis-report,
- fill out,
- doing well,
- business plan,
- Mantling,
- piles up,
- be displayed,
- lets go,
- acquire,
- unbar,
- puff up,
- stretched out,
- Agglomerating,
- crane,
- swelling up,
- spread on thick,
- aggregate,
- Grand-stand,
- build,
- fortify,
- be profuse,
- unite,
- compound,
- lied,
- blow up,
- unbarring,
- unscrambled,
- swelled,
- thicken,
- widen,
- rose,
- bear fruit,
- mantled,
- overestimated,
- adds up,
- calculate,
- blobbing,
- speeding up,
- hit it big,
- Craned,
- heave,
- flourish,
- holding forth,
- Caking,
- reach,
- account,
- sorted out,
- distinguish,
- sending out,
- radiate,
- opened out,
- dignify,
- marked up,
- letting out,
- piled up,
- runs up,
- exaggerate,
- clean up,
- make a killing,
- hold forth,
- Surcharging,
- bloat,
- unravel,
- display,
- outspread,
- showcasing,
- fleshing out,
- grow thick,
- jump up,
- swell up,
- spreads out,
- Manifolded,
- set out,
- showcase,
- drowse,
- massed,
- drawing together,
- Pouching,
- make taut,
- overembellish,
- unfurls,
- Blobber,
- assess,
- run into,
- put on weight,
- maximizes,
- stringing out,
- letting go,
- cumulate,
- evens out,
- commentates,
- come over,
- yeasting,
- marking up,
- burgeon,
- overelaborated,
- supplement,
- mount,
- rolled out,
- deepen,
- made longer,
- inflate,
- flowered,
- strengthen,
- spread-out,
- bringing together,
- draw together,
- put across,
- enhance,
- heighten,
- spun out,
- teem,
- Widened,
- positioning,
- Prolongate,
- distribute,
- pop up,
- Evolved,
- beetle,
- unsnarl,
- go up,
- commentate,
- brought together,
- flower,
- throw wide,
- manifolds,
- string out,
- stretches out,
- outstretched,
- prolong,
- store up,
- showcased,
- make mountain out of molehill,
- Spanned,
- amplify,
- unbolt,
- stockpile,
- determine,
- Slotting,
- cranes,
- Unclosed,
- magnify,
- bloom,
- Romanced,
- diversify,
- made clear,
- bursting forth,
- groan,
- overemphasize,
- Broking,
- sent out,
- triples,
- unroll,
- gained weight,
- Unclose,
- cannibalize,
- come,
- Bulking,
- grow up,
- make federal case,
- going up,
- business,
- rack up,
- brings together,
- suspiring,
- come apart,
- unfurl,
- Caricatured,
- live high on hog,
- hyperbolize,
- outspreading,
- become bloated,
- soup up,
- lucubrate,
- bellied,
- blow-up,
- Unlatching,
- wax,
- loaded up,
- tack on,
- got bigger,
- accrue,
- put up,
- reinforce,
- overlapping,
- detail,
- applaud,
- inspissate,
- get taller,
- promote,
- Discumber,
- shape up,
- unscramble,
- Manifolding,
- Holing,
- throw in,
- advance,
- evolve,
- untwisted,
- beetles,
- bust in,
- uncurling,
- upsurged,
- explicate,
- got to,
- run-through,
- expand,
- swelled out,
- untwists,
- poke,
- store,
- Cubed,
- spit up,
- unsnarling,
- overemphasizes,
- be prolix,
- opening up,
- branch out,
- retches,
- Retching,
- opened up,
- labor,
- over-emphasize,
- prove,
- swell out,
- Unstop,
- rise,
- disembroil,
- went up,
- reel out,
- growing,
- overfed,
- expound,
- roll up,
- unbolting,
- yawn,
- collect,
- sends out,
- protrude,
- Misreport,
- compile,
- elevate,
- mark up,
- beetling,
- uncork,
- soar,
- Disembroiled,
- rounded out,
- curdled,
- dilate upon,
- unstopping,
- round out,
- overemphasized,
- uncoiling,
- supersize,
- Sagger,
- open up,
- burst forth,
- size,
- scamming,
- overdraw,
- add up,
- overestimating,
- unbarred,
- make longer,
- fanning out,
- puke,
- lay out,
- getting bigger,
- agglomerate,
- uncrease,
- augment,
- go great guns,
- boost,
- Surcharged,
- mushroom,
- multiply,
- summing to,
- fan,
- drowses,
- win over,
- fill,
- stir up,
- Massing,
- cleans up,
- spread out,
- untangle,
- triple,
- unfold,
- open wide,
- unlock,
- shake out,
- Reamed,
- compute,
- made larger,
- unlatched,
- IED,
- weed out,
- gather,
- gelling,
- move up,
- growing up,
- speeded up,
- over-embellished,
- make tense,
- gathering,
- Intensate,
- be coming,
- hoard,
- hike,
- uncoiled,
- running on,
- increase,
- drag feet,
- dissertate,
- unbolted,
- heap,
- unsnarls,
- loud talk,
- holed,
- poucher,
- going through the roof,
- give meeting,
- amalgamate,
- uncorking,
- clarify,
- plumping,
- interpret,
- Retched,
- open out,
- proliferate,
- surcharge,
- stirred up,
- shooting out,
- well up,
- overdo,
- coming to be,
- shoot out,
- puffing up,
- slap on,
- unscrambling,
- lay bare,
- puffed out,
- misquotes,
- bursts forth,
- parlay,
- mature,
- snowball,
- coarsens,
- put flesh on,
- gets to,
- overfeed,
- uncorked,
- grow full,
- made tense,
- uncoil,
- mass,
- cleaned up,
- upchucking,
- balloon,
- sweeten,
- elaborate,
- stretch out,
- unveiled,
- embroider,
- Outstretch,
- procure,
- overestimates,
- move,
- beauty parade,
- Enroot,
- bulk up,
- bellier,
- protract,
- drag one's feet,
- stirring up,
- laying it on thick,
- scammed,
- pumped up,
- running into,
- bolster,
- fatten,
- emancipate,
- run up,
- jellied,
- bring to view,
- be distributed,
- succeed,
- blow out of proportion,
- add,
- send out,
- tripling,
- coarsening,
- overtake,
- breadthen,
- emaciate,
- commend,
- stacked up,
- brokerage,
- modelling,
- discourse,
- estimate,
- laid bare,
- cache,
- expansion,
- clabbering,
- Unshut,
- pad,
- outstrip,
- over-estimate,
- making known,
- Drowsed,
- pouched,
- embellish,
- strung out,
- Lectured,
- bring together,
- tag on,
- Bulked,
- blow up out of proportion,
- pops up,
- scrape out,
- book,
- boom,
- spell out,
- increment,
- jazz up,
- assemble,
- unbars,
- unbolts,
- give details,
- goes up,
- uncurled,
- go through the roof,
- grow rapidly,
- hyped,
- uncoils,
- make a bundle,
- gelled,
- fatigue catch flies,
- hype,
- overstate,
- fleshed out,
- welling up,
- unbraid,
- internationalize,
- unstopped,
- aggrandize,
- uncurl,
- opening out,
- honor,
- maximized,
- pop out,
- yeasted,
- rarefy,
- quantity,
- bellying,
- scale up,
- bagger,
- diffusing,
- shot out,
- get ahead,
- curdling,
- moved forward,
- unbent,
- agglomerated,
- take battle stations,
- bilge,
- puff out,
- open,
- spurt,
- maximizing,
- escalate,
- drag out,
- flesh out,
- Prolonging,
- exposit,
- enlarge,
- heap together,
- outsource,
- upsurge,
- extend,
- unbended,
- ran into,
- double,
- Jellying,
- upgrade,
- become swollen,
- grow larger,
- scoop out,
- Unlatch,
- count,
- sprawl,
- permeate,
- moving forward,
- raise,
- i,
- project,
- Vegetated,
- overemphasizing,
- oversized,
- pumping up,
- appreciate,
- bloater,
- Gels,
- jump,
- showcases,
- fissured,
- broaden,
- billow,
- upchuck,
- Emaciating,
- make clear,
- unlatches,
- acclaim,
- even out,
- engorge,
- getting to,
- pyramid,
- Bilged,
- run on,
- tumefy,
- made known,
- shoot up,
- outgrow,
- misquote,
- commentated,
- prosper,
- piling up,
- develop,
- stretching,
- overestimate,
- laying bare,
- illustrate,
- deploy,
- unbend,
- stretch the truth,
- spill over,
- misreported,
- slapped on,
- stirs up,
- Slotted,
- shot up,
- disentangle,
- lay on thick,
- uncurls,
- distend,
- beetler,
- collocate,
- protuberate,
- upchucks,
- Cubing,
- thickening,
- go to extremes,
- weeding out,
- intensify,
- swell,
- Beetled,
- lays bare,
- pervade,
- adding up,
- Romancing,
- uncorks,
- Bilging,
- give out,
- Disembroiling,
- Dissert,
- drowsing,
- sped up,
- build up,
- do well,
- shooting up,
- Plumped,
- accumulate,
- diffuse,
- untwisting,
- sum to,
- explain,
- asset,
- make larger,
- unbends,
- gain,
- bulk out,
- round up,
- bug out,
- thrive,
- lengthen,
- coarsened,
- get bigger,
- pretty up,
- incorporate,
- runs into,
- lay it on thick,
- misreporting,
- suspires,
- setting out,
- glorify,
- stack up,
- wax and wane,
- make known,
- jack up,
- untwine,
- rise in value,
- spreading out,
- expatiate,
- Caricaturing,
- gapped,
- fissuring.
Usage Examples for EXPAND
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He chose to expand upon Macartney, the nearest he dared get to the subject of his thoughts. - "Love and Lucy" by Maurice Henry Hewlett
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The teacher may now give the words expand and contract, writing them on the black- board and explaining their use. - "Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study" by Ontario Ministry of Education
