| Main Entry: | dilation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | distention |
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expansion, extension |
| Main Entry: | bulge |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | swollen object |
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appendage, bagginess, blob, bump, bunch, bunching, convexity, dilation, distention, excess, excrescence, gibbosity, growth, hump, intumescence, jut, lump, nodulation, nodule, outgrowth, outthrust, projection, prominence, promontory, protrusion, protuberance, sac, sagging, salience, salient, superfluity, swelling, tuberosity, tumefaction, tumor, wart |
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depression |
| Main Entry: | expansion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | growth |
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amplification, augmentation, breadth, development, diffusion, dilation, distance, distension, enlargement, evolution, expanse, extension, increase, inflation, magnification, maturation, multiplication, opening out, space, spread, stretch, swelling, unfolding, unfurling |
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lessening, shrinkage, stagnation |
| Main Entry: | fullness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | abundance, breadth |
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adequateness, ampleness, amplitude, broadness, completeness, completion, comprehensiveness, congestion, copiousness, curvaceousness, dilation, distension, enlargement, entirety, extensiveness, fill, glut, plenitude, plenty, plenum, profusion, repletion, roundness, satiation, satiety, saturation, scope, sufficiency, surfeit, swelling, totality, tumescence, vastness, voluptuousness, wealth, wholeness, wideness |
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emptiness, incompleteness, need, void, want |
| Main Entry: | swelling |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | physical growth; lump |
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abscess, blister, boil, bruise, bulge, bump, bunion, carbuncle, contusion, corn, dilation, distention, enlargement, hump, increase, inflammation, injury, knob, knurl, node, nodule, pimple, pock, protuberance, puff, puffiness, pustule, ridge, sore, tumescence, tumor, wale, wart, weal, welt |
Antonyms: |
depression |
| Main Entry: | satiation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fullness |
Synonyms: |
adequateness, ampleness, amplitude, broadness, completeness, completion, comprehensiveness, congestion, copiousness, curvaceousness, dilation, distension, engorgement, enlargement, entirety, extensiveness, fill, glut, plenitude, plenty, plenum, profusion, repletion, roundness, satiety, saturation, scope, sufficiency, surfeit, swelling, totality, tumescence, vastness, voluptuousness, wealth, wholeness, wideness |
| Concept: | Expansion. |
| Category: | 1. GENERAL DIMENSIONS |
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-nouns
expansion; increase of size; enlargement, extension, augmentation; amplification, ampliation; aggrandizement, spread, increment, growth, development, pullulation, swell, dilation, rarefaction; turgescence, turgidness, turgidity; dispansion; obesity (size); 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 (convexity); plumper; superiority of size.
-verbs
become larger (large [more]); expand, widen, enlarge, extend, grow, increase, incrassate, swell, gather; fill out; deploy, take open order, dilate, stretch, 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 (be superior)., render larger (large [more]); expand, spread, extend, aggrandize, distend, develop, amplify, spread out, widen, magnify, rarefy, inflate, puff, blow up, stuff, pad, cram; exaggerate; fatten.
-adjectives
expanded; larger (large [more]; swollen; expansive; wide-open, wide-spread; flabelliform; overgrown, exaggerated, bloated, fat, turgid, tumid, hypertrophied, dropsical; pot bellied, swag bellied; oedematous, obese, puffy, pursy, blowzy, bigswoln, distended; patulous; bulbous (convex); full blown, full grown, full formed; big; abdominous, enchymatous, rhipidate; tumefacient, tumefying.
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Antonyms: |
contraction |
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