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present participle of expand.

expanding

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broadening adj.
cultural adj.
expansive adj.
flourishing adj.
growing adj.
increasing adj.
prospering adj.
roaring adj.
tumescent adj.
addition n.
colonization n.
totalization n.

ADJECTIVE

broadening

Synonyms

STRONG

advancing enlightening enriching improving refining

WEAK

cultural developmental educational

ADJECTIVE

cultural

Synonyms

STRONGEST

artistic developmental

WEAK

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

Synonyms

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

STRONGEST

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

Antonyms

STRONGEST

declining failing losing

WEAK

ceasing decreasing languishing stunted undeveloping

ADJECTIVE

growing

Synonyms

STRONGEST

burgeoning developing flourishing spreading thriving viable

STRONG

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

WEAK

crescive

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STRONGEST

failing languishing

STRONG

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

WEAK

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

Synonyms

WEAK

bloated bulging bulgy bursting distended distent enlarged inflated puffed puffy tumid

NOUN

addition

Synonyms

STRONG

accretion computing counting reckoning summation

WEAK

accruing adding enlarging increasing summing tabulating totaling toting

Antonyms

WEAK

decrease deduction lessening loss reduction shrinkage subtraction withdrawal

NOUN

colonization

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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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Astronomers use the Hubble constant as a measure of how fast the universe is expanding.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 4, 2026

Chris Bowen, the country's climate minister, says Australia is rapidly expanding its renewable energy sources, which are essential for a transition away from fossil fuels.

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

Egan-Jones, which has been expanding into private credit, has faced scrutiny by the Securities and Exchange Commission over its credit-ratings business.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026

Growing group: The Alliance for Critical Infrastructure, an industry group created in February as a forum for companies providing vital economic services, is expanding from nine to nearly 50 corporate members.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

Historians found them invaluable in expanding their knowledge of what types of large guns were aboard sixteenth-century warships.

From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler

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