| expand | (verb) grow vigorously | Synonyms: boom, flourish, thrive |
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| (verb) exaggerate or make bigger | Synonyms: amplify, blow up, inflate |
| (verb) become larger in size or volume or quantity | - |
| (verb) expand the influence of | Synonyms: extend |
| (verb) make bigger or wider in size, volume, or quantity | - |
| (verb) add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing | Synonyms: dilate, elaborate, enlarge, expatiate, exposit, expound, flesh out, lucubrate |
| (verb) extend in one or more directions | Synonyms: spread out |
| expatiate | (verb) add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing | Synonyms: dilate, elaborate, enlarge, expand, exposit, expound, flesh out, lucubrate |
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| expatriate | (verb) move away from one's native country and adopt a new residence abroad | - |
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| (verb) expel from a country | Synonyms: deport, exile |
| expect | (verb) be pregnant with | Synonyms: bear, carry, gestate, have a bun in the oven |
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| (verb) look forward to the birth of a child | - |
| (verb) regard something as probable or likely | Synonyms: anticipate |
| (verb) look forward to the probable occurrence of | Synonyms: await, look, wait |
| (verb) consider reasonable or due | - |
| (verb) consider obligatory; request and expect | Synonyms: ask, require |
| expectorate | (verb) discharge (phlegm or sputum) from the lungs and out of the mouth | Synonyms: cough out, cough up, spit out, spit up |
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| (verb) clear out the chest and lungs | Synonyms: clear out, drive out |
| expedite | (verb) speed up the progress of; facilitate | Synonyms: hasten |
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| (verb) process fast and efficiently | - |
| expel | (verb) eliminate (a substance) | Synonyms: discharge, eject, exhaust, release |
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| (verb) cause to flee | Synonyms: rout, rout out |
| (verb) force to leave or move out | Synonyms: kick out, throw out |
| (verb) remove from a position or office | Synonyms: boot out, drum out, kick out, oust, throw out |
| expend | (verb) use up (resources or materials) | Synonyms: consume, deplete, eat, eat up, exhaust, run through, use, use up, wipe out |
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| (verb) pay out | Synonyms: drop, spend |
| expense | (verb) reduce the estimated value of something | Synonyms: write down, write off |
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| experience | (verb) undergo | Synonyms: have |
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| (verb) have firsthand knowledge of states, situations, emotions, or sensations | Synonyms: know, live |
| (verb) undergo an emotional sensation or be in a particular state of mind | Synonyms: feel |
| (verb) go through (mental or physical states or experiences) | Synonyms: get, have, receive |
| (verb) undergo or live through a difficult experience | Synonyms: go through, see |
| experiment | (verb) to conduct a test or investigation | - |
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| (verb) try something new, as in order to gain experience | Synonyms: try out |
| expiate | (verb) make amends for | Synonyms: aby, abye, atone |
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| expire | (verb) expel air | Synonyms: breathe out, exhale |
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| (verb) pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life | Synonyms: buy the farm, cash in one's chips, choke, conk, croak, decease, die, drop dead, exit, give-up the ghost, go, kick the bucket, pass, pass away, perish, pop off, snuff it |
| (verb) lose validity | Synonyms: run out |
| explain | (verb) make plain and comprehensible | Synonyms: explicate |
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| (verb) define | - |
| (verb) serve as a reason or cause or justification of | Synonyms: excuse |
| explicate | (verb) make plain and comprehensible | Synonyms: explain |
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| (verb) elaborate, as of theories and hypotheses | Synonyms: develop, formulate |
| explode | (verb) burst outward, usually with noise | Synonyms: burst |
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| (verb) cause to burst with a violent release of energy | Synonyms: blow up, detonate, set off |
| (verb) increase rapidly and in an uncontrolled manner | Synonyms: irrupt |
| (verb) be unleashed; emerge with violence or noise | Synonyms: break loose, burst forth |
| (verb) burst and release energy as through a violent chemical or physical reaction | Synonyms: blow up, detonate |
| (verb) show a violent emotional reaction | - |
| (verb) show (a theory or claim) to be baseless, or refute and make obsolete | - |
| (verb) drive from the stage by noisy disapproval | - |
| (verb) cause to burst as a result of air pressure; of stop consonants like /p/, /t/, and /k/ | - |
| (verb) destroy by exploding | - |
| exploit | (verb) use or manipulate to one's advantage | Synonyms: work |
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| (verb) draw from; make good use of | Synonyms: tap |
| (verb) work excessively hard | Synonyms: overwork |
| explore | (verb) inquire into | Synonyms: research, search |
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| (verb) travel to or penetrate into | - |
| (verb) inquire into a subject in detail | - |
| (verb) examine (organs) for diagnostic purposes | - |
| export | (verb) cause to spread in another part of the world | - |
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| (verb) sell or transfer abroad | - |
| (verb) transfer (electronic data) out of a database or document in a format that can be used by other programs | - |
| expose | (verb) abandon by leaving out in the open air | - |
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| (verb) expose while ridiculing; especially of pretentious or false claims and ideas | Synonyms: debunk |
| (verb) make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret | Synonyms: break, bring out, disclose, discover, divulge, give away, let on, let out, reveal, uncover, unwrap |
| (verb) put in a dangerous, disadvantageous, or difficult position | Synonyms: endanger, peril, queer, scupper |
| (verb) remove all or part of one's clothes to show one's body | Synonyms: uncover |
| (verb) to show, make visible or apparent | Synonyms: display, exhibit |
| (verb) expose to light, of photographic film | - |
| (verb) expose or make accessible to some action or influence | - |
| (verb) reveal to view as by removing a cover | Synonyms: disclose, uncover |
| exposit | (verb) state | Synonyms: expound, set forth |
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| (verb) add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing | Synonyms: dilate, elaborate, enlarge, expand, expatiate, expound, flesh out, lucubrate |
| expostulate | (verb) reason with (somebody) for the purpose of dissuasion | - |
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| expound | (verb) add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing | Synonyms: dilate, elaborate, enlarge, expand, expatiate, exposit, flesh out, lucubrate |
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| (verb) state | Synonyms: exposit, set forth |
| express | (verb) articulate; either verbally or with a cry, shout, or noise | Synonyms: give tongue to, utter, verbalise, verbalize |
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| (verb) give expression to | Synonyms: evince, show |
| (verb) serve as a means for expressing something | Synonyms: carry, convey |
| (verb) indicate through a symbol, formula, etc. | Synonyms: state |
| (verb) send by rapid transport or special messenger service | - |
| (verb) obtain from a substance, as by mechanical action | Synonyms: extract, press out |
| (verb) manifest the effects of (a gene or genetic trait) | - |
| expropriate | (verb) deprive of possessions | - |
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| expunge | (verb) remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line | Synonyms: excise, scratch, strike |
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| expurgate | (verb) edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate | Synonyms: bowdlerise, bowdlerize, castrate, shorten |
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