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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

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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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expanding

The carrier is also expanding the number of extra-legroom seats.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026

Worried investors are offloading Treasurys as they grow frustrated with the expanding U.S. debt load, the government’s borrowing needs and mounting corporate-debt issuance.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026

"These coins were rusting and expanding and were capable of pressing the whole column of rock above them, pushing them up," he told BBC Radio Foyle's North West Today programme.

From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026

Within a few years, Edwin Hubble would discover that the universe is expanding.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 18, 2026

One notion is that perhaps the singularity was the relic of an earlier, collapsed universe–that we’re just one of an eternal cycle of expanding and collapsing universes, like the bladder on an oxygen machine.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson

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