English English Dictionary

expand in English:

1. get bigger

2. increase

The prices increased.

Although an increase of unmarried mothers is needed in order to escape the declining birth rate for some reason public opinion in Japan is avoiding this argument.

The report from the National Development and Reform Committee says that the advance in rural high-speed telecommunication infrastructure is the main reason for the increase in Internet users.

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It's just if we have it every day we're bound to get fed up with it. I must increase the variety of my cooking.

Yesterday my brother went to Fukushima to help the inhabitants. I'm afraid that the radiation will increase.

This may be because of a change in people's attitude toward marriage and the sharp increase of fast food restaurants and convenience stores which are open 24 hours a day and enable young people to live more easily.

When I reached the hall right away the person in charge unrelentingly said things like "This painting is certain to increase in value in the future," and I went and signed the contract.

In China, there is a large number of characters, so the goal of the character simplification was to replace the complex traditional characters with easy to remember simplified characters and increase the literacy rate.

The Chinese government has spent a lot of money on research into successful panda breeding in order to increase their birth rate.

This extraordinary increase is explained by the speedy economic unification which took place during the same period.

Our firm is a giant one, and there are some rules and regulations, which should be revised or rescinded to reduce red tape and increase efficiency.

increase by - wzrasta o. Exports of computers have increased by 15% since January. / increase in: The club has been increasing in popularity. / increase with: The chances of having twins increase with a mother’s age. / → Opposite - decrease

Apart from gold; customers may ask for their avatar’s skill level to increase; or for a virtual magic sword.

3. become or make larger

4. augment

People striving to augment their welth.

But Sex Box, with its ridiculous guinea pigs screwing conceit, will only augment our cultural hang-ups about sex.

The money augmented his fortune

And so, knowledge from the past, mixed up with assumptions about that knowledge, which may be more or less appropriate, is used to augment information provided by the senses.

5. make bigger

English word "expand"(make bigger) occurs in sets:

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6. to enlarge something

English word "expand"(to enlarge something) occurs in sets:

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7. spread

My waist size has recently increased. I guess it's middle-age spread.

Spread Esperanto!

Readers always concentrate on the top parts of the spread.

Knowledge is like manure, it's only good when spread.

The spread of television has considerably deprived us of our time for reading.

The office for disease control reported a 10 percent spread.

It's funny how German can take a verb, cut it in half, and spread it over a five-clause sentence.

Using a doubled-up cushion in place of a pillow I lie down on the hard wooden floor with nothing but a carpet spread over it.

I have spread my dreams beneath your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

The movement developed first and most fully in the British Isles, but spread across the British Empire and to the rest of Europe and North America

„the spread of AIDS”, spread butter on bred, „I spread a towel on the sand and sat down”

Nutella is not very well known in Japan. However, in America and Europe it's a popular spread and various sized jars of Nutella may be seen lined up inside many grocery stores and supermarkets.

You can be a hepatitis carrier and spread it to other people without even realising it.

He knocked on the doors of peoples houses, but news of his arrival had quickly spread and nobody wo

The story that, "Apparently the new primary school curriculum will teach that pi as 3" spread this March.

8. to increase the size or amount of something

English word "expand"(to increase the size or amount of something) occurs in sets:

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9. verb to increase in size

10. become or make larger or more extensive

11. roving

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12. broaden

We have to give our employees the possibility to broaden their skills.

Good movies broaden your horizons.

broaden your horizons

Broaden your horizon so that as you become more and more able to take care of yourself you will move intelligently.

Travel broadens the mind

People say that travel broadens the mind

This is a way to broaden cooperation.!

Travelling broadens the mind, Emma, he said slowly.

We need to broaden the range of services that we offer.

People say that travel broadens the mind. I think this lecture broadened my horizons significantly.

to broaden one's horizons; to broaden one's experience; to broaden the range of sth

I've always believed that travel broadens the mind.

Kelly reads a lot because she wants to broaden her knowledge.

They are broadening the bridge to speed up the flow of traffic.

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