Expand is valid Scrabble Word

Is expand a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is expand valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

6 letters word
16 points in Scrabble
18 points in WWF

Definitions for EXPAND in dictionary:

VERB:

to increase in size or volume
become or make larger or more extensive
(of the universe) undergo a continuous change whereby, according to theory based on observed red shifts, all the galaxies recede from one another.
give a fuller version or account of
become less reserved in character or behaviour
make or become larger
To lay open by extending; to open wide; to spread out; to diffuse; as, a flower expands its leaves.
To cause the particles or parts of to spread themselves or stand apart, thus increasing bulk without addition of substance; to make to occupy more space; to dilate; to distend; to extend every way; to enlarge; -- opposed to contract; as, to expand the chest; heat expands all bodies; to expand the sphere of benevolence.
To state in enlarged form; to develop; as, to expand an equation. See Expansion, 5.
To become widely opened, spread apart, dilated, distended, or enlarged; as, flowers expand in the spring; metals expand by heat; the heart expands with joy.

extend in one or more directions
become larger in size or volume or quantity
make bigger or wider in size, volume, or quantity
grow vigorously
exaggerate or make bigger
add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing
expand the influence of

Words related to EXPAND

expandable22 expanded19 expanding20 expands17

Words that contain EXPAND

expands17 expanded19 expander18 expandor18 expanders19 expanding20 expandors19 expandable22 overexpand23 unexpanded21 overexpands24 overexpanded26 expandability28 overexpanding27 expandabilities27

How to use EXPAND in a sentence

In rather the same way you can expand the fingers of a glove by forcing your breath into them.
Fragrance-folding seeds Must so through flowers expand, Then die.
I can feel it travelling in my veins and making the tissues expand.
As her bodily strength failed her mind seemed to expand, and her intellectual powers to grow higher.
Another issue that was a concern then was the manner in which the event was being used as an excuse by luxury hotels to expand their properties.
From the time the leaves begin to expand, and all through its growing stage, it needs plenty water, and an occasional application of liquid manure.
My very soul seemed to expand within me to peace and joy.
By the side of this great discovery we should place another, that seems likely to expand in future.
But as his thoughts expand a little he will begin to think of the welfare and comfort of his family.
He sought to teach them a theology more exalted than the fancies of their singular superstition, and to expand their minds by a display of the instruments of European science.

She knew well that they were there and would expand under the influence of sympathy.
Now, the peculiarity of sleep is to expand or contract time, as we may choose to put the case.
Metals and glass expand equally in all directions, since they are homogeneous substances, while wood is a complicated structure.
The lines of force have their roots in the magnet, and though they may expand into infinite space, they eventually return to the magnet.
Here the air grew keener and cooler, and the light seemed to expand.
When we lift and expand properly, we expand the body as a whole, and not the chest alone, nor the diaphragm, nor the sides.
Place yourself upon a level with the first tone in the proper manner, sing down, but lift and expand with an ascending movement of the hands and body.
Remember, however, this important fact, that it is possible to lift and expand, and even to let go, and yet not to influence the tone.
Yellow and lavender wings began to expand and take on colour.
Were our territory as limited as are the British Isles, very certainly our population could not expand as stated.
His courage in facing the actual world is thus supported by his ability to expand the world in imagination.
We do strangely expand and contract in vital force and reach of vision.
But as the lovely, peaceful, healing days passed, that bitter and contracted heart had to expand somewhat.
The original leaves soon die, but from the healthy stalk new ones shoot out and expand very rapidly.
He will expand, and grow, and increase, and extend civilization, Christianity, and liberal principles.

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