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present participle of expand.

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expanding

ADJECTIVE

broadening

Synonyms

STRONG

advancing enlightening enriching improving refining

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cultural developmental educational

ADJECTIVE

cultural

Synonyms

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artistic developmental

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adorning advancing beautifying beneficial broadening civilizing constructive corrective dignifying disciplining edifying educative elevating ennobling enriching glorifying helpful humane humanizing influential inspirational instructive learned liberal liberalizing nurturing ornamenting polishing promoting raising refined refining regenerative socializing stimulating uplifting widening

ADJECTIVE

expansive

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STRONGEST

extensive far-reaching inclusive wide-ranging

WEAK

all-embracing ample big dilatant elastic expansile great large scopic scopious stretching thorough unrepressed unsuppressed voluminous wide widespread

Antonyms

STRONGEST

narrow

WEAK

limited quiet reserved silent

ADJECTIVE

flourishing

Synonyms

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blooming burgeoning growing prosperous thriving

STRONG

mushrooming rank roaring

WEAK

doing well exuberant going strong in full swing in the pink in top form lush luxuriant profuse rampant rich robust successful vigorous

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declining failing losing

WEAK

ceasing decreasing languishing stunted undeveloping

ADJECTIVE

growing

Synonyms

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burgeoning developing flourishing spreading thriving viable

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amplifying animate augmenting budding crescent dilating enlarging fructifying germinating living maturing mushrooming pullulating sprouting stretching swelling waxing

WEAK

crescive

Antonyms

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failing languishing

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dead dying shrinking

WEAK

lessening withering

ADJECTIVE

increasing

Synonyms

STRONGEST

developing growing rising

STRONG

accumulating augmenting booming broadening enlarging flourishing maturing multiplying proliferating snowballing sprouting swelling waxing widening

WEAK

getting big piling up

ADJECTIVE

prospering

Synonyms

STRONG

blooming booming burgeoning growing mushrooming rank roaring thriving

WEAK

boomy doing well exuberant going strong in full swing in the pink in top form lush luxuriant profuse prosperous rampant rich robust successful thrifty vigorous

Antonyms

STRONG

declining

ADJECTIVE

roaring

Synonyms

STRONGEST

booming thriving

STRONG

blooming burgeoning growing lush mushrooming prospering rank rich

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boomy doing well exuberant going strong in full swing in the pink in top form luxuriant profuse prosperous rampant robust successful thrifty vigorous

Antonyms

STRONG

barren sparse

ADJECTIVE

tumescent

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bloated bulging bulgy bursting distended distent enlarged inflated puffed puffy tumid

NOUN

addition

Synonyms

STRONG

accretion computing counting reckoning summation

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accruing adding enlarging increasing summing tabulating totaling toting

Antonyms

WEAK

decrease deduction lessening loss reduction shrinkage subtraction withdrawal

NOUN

colonization

Synonyms

STRONG

clearing establishment expansion founding immigration migration settlement settling squatting transplanting

WEAK

opening up peopling pioneering populating

NOUN

totalization

Synonyms

WEAK

accretion accruing adding computing counting enlarging increasing reckoning summation summing tabulating totaling toting

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And it is up against economic headwinds that are keeping builders from expanding the housing stock, such as elevated mortgage rates and higher construction and materials costs.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 24, 2026

The increased spending results largely from significant salary increases, maintaining health benefits amid rising costs and expanding the number of part-time employees eligible for benefits.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 24, 2026

There are measures the company has adopted over the years to bolster its platform against myriad vulnerabilities: adopting cybersecurity programs to preempt automated bot accounts, and expanding protections for music festival mishaps.

From Slate • Jun. 24, 2026

A newly upgraded version of this module arrived at the space station on April 11 aboard a Commercial Resupply Services mission, expanding the range of experiments scientists can perform.

From Science Daily • Jun. 23, 2026

If the French kept expanding their hold, they could link their southern lands with New France.

From "George Washington, Spymaster" by Thomas B. Allen

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