| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| VERB: | 1. To express at greater length or in greater detail: amplify, develop, dilate, elaborate, enlarge, expatiate, labor. See EXPLAIN. 2. To make or become more comprehensive or inclusive: broaden, extend, widen. See INCREASE. 3. To make or become greater or larger: aggrandize, amplify, augment, boost, build, build up, burgeon, enlarge, escalate, extend, grow, increase, magnify, mount, multiply, proliferate, rise, run up, snowball, soar, swell, upsurge, wax. Informal : beef up. See INCREASE. 4. To move or arrange so as to cover a larger area: extend, fan1 (out), open (out or up), outstretch, spread, stretch, unfold, unroll. See MOVE.
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