N. expansion, increase of size,
enlargement, extension,
augmentation,
amplification,
ampliation,
aggrandizement, spread,
increment, growth, development,
pullulation, swell,
dilation,
rarefaction,
turgescence,
turgidness,
turgidity, dispansion|,
obesity,
hydrocephalus, hydrophthalmus,
dropsy,
tumefaction,
intumescence, swelling,
tumor,
diastole, distension,
puffing,
puffiness,
inflation,
pandiculation,
dilatability,
expansibility,
germination, growth,
upgrowth,
accretion,
budding,
gemmation, overgrowth, overdistension,
hypertrophy,
tympany,
bulb,
plumper, superiority of size, big bang, hubble constant
V. become larger &c. (large ),
expand,
widen,
enlarge, extend, grow, increase,
incrassate, swell, gather, fill out,
deploy, take open order,
dilate, stretch, distend, spread,
mantle, wax, grow up, spring up,
bud,
bourgeon, shoot,
sprout,
germinate, put forth,
vegetate,
pullulate, open, burst forth, gain flesh, gather flesh, outgrow, spread like wildfire, overrun, be larger than,
surpass, render larger &c. (large ),
expand, spread, extend,
aggrandize, distend, develop,
amplify, spread out,
widen,
magnify,
rarefy,
inflate,
puff, blow up, stuff,
pad,
cram,
exaggerate,
fatten Adj. expanded, larger &c. (large ),
swollen,
expansive, wide open, wide spread,
flabelliform, overgrown, exaggerated,
bloated, fat,
turgid,
tumid,
hypertrophied,
dropsical, pot bellied, swag bellied|,
edematous,
oedematous,
obese,
puffy,
pursy,
blowzy,
bigswoln, distended,
patulous,
bulbous, full blown, full grown, full formed,
big,
abdominous, enchymatous, rhipidate, tumefacient,
tumefying N. diffuseness,
amplification,
dilating,
verbosity,
verbiage, cloud of words, copia verborum, flow of words, looseness,
polylogy,
tautology,
battology, perissology|,
pleonasm,
exuberance,
redundancy, thrice-told tale,
prolixity,
circumlocution,
ambages,
periphrase,
periphrasis, roundabout phrases,
episode,
expletive, pennya-lining, richness
V. be diffuse, run out on,
descant,
expatiate,
enlarge,
dilate,
amplify,
expand,
inflate, launch out, branch out,
rant,
maunder, prose, harp upon, dwell on, insist upon,
digress,
ramble, battre la campagne, beat about the bush,
perorate, spin a long yarn,
protract, spin out, swell out, draw out,
battologize Adj. diffuse,
profuse,
wordy,
verbose, largiloquent|, copious,
exuberant,
pleonastic,
lengthy,
longsome,
long-winded,
longspun, long drawn out, spun out,
protracted,
prolix, prosing,
maundering,
circumlocutory,
periphrastic,
ambagious,
roundabout,
digressive,
discursive,
excursive, loose, rambling episodic,
flatulent,
frothy Adv. diffusely, at large, in extenso, about it and about it
