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expand (up)on something and enlarge (up)on something
Fig. to add detail to a report about something; to say more about something. Would you please expand upon that last remark? Would you care to enlarge upon your remarks?

expand something into something

to enlarge something into something; to make something grow into something. She expanded her business into a national company. I would like to build on an addition to expand this room into a more usable space.

expand into something

to grow into something; to enlarge into something. The little problem expanded into a big one in no time at all. In no time at all, the vegetable garden had expanded into a small farm.

expand one's horizons

Fig. to experience and learn new things. Read more! Travel! Go out and expand your horizons!
See also: horizon


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Highway" tire pressures are increased from 60 to 70 psi on cargo tractor, dump, and expansible van models, and from 70 to 80 psi on wrecker models.
This proven command and control organization that was designed to synchronize and integrate fires, air power and ground maneuver-effects is expansible.
Thomas Jefferson might have been in the middle of the cyberspace/copyright dispute when he wrote: "That ideas should be freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man and improvement of his condition seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature when she made them like fire, expansible over all space without lessening their density at any point, and, like the air,.
 
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