intransitive verb. To make wider or larger; cause to expand.

intransitive verb. To become wider or larger; expand.

intransitive verb. To speak or write at great length on a subject; expatiate.

Broad; extended.

To expand; distend; spread out; enlarge or extend in all directions: as, air dilates the lungs; to dilate the pupil of the eye.

To set forth at length; relate at large; relute or describe with full particulars; enlarge upon.

Synonyms To swell, spread out, amplify.

To spread out; expand; distend; swell; enlarge.

To speak at length; dwell on particulars; enlarge; expatiate; descant: used absolutely or with upon or on.

adjective. Extensive; expanded.

transitive verb. To expand; to distend; to enlarge or extend in all directions; to swell; -- opposed to contract

transitive verb. To enlarge upon; to relate at large; to tell copiously or diffusely.

intransitive verb. To grow wide; to expand; to swell or extend in all directions.

intransitive verb. To speak largely and copiously; to dwell in narration; to enlarge; -- with on or upon.

verb. To enlarge; to make bigger.

verb. To become wider or larger; to expand.

verb. become wider

verb. add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing