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China, Australia agree to turn the page as tensions ease - Reuters Reuters President Xi Jinping said on Monday stable ties between China and Australia served each other's interests and both should expand their cooperation ...

Ukraine arrested a top judge as it expanded a crackdown on corruption.

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expand

/ɪkˈspand,ɛkˈspand/

verb

1. become or make larger or more extensive.

   "their business expanded into other hotels"

   Similar:

   increase in size

   become larger

   enlarge

   swell

   become distended

   dilate

   inflate

   balloon

   puff out/up

   lengthen

   stretch

   thicken

   fatten

   fill out

   intumesce

   tumefy

   grow

   become/make larger

   become/make bigger

   increase in size/scope

   extend

   augment

   broaden

   widen

   develop

   diversify

   multiply

   add to

   build up

   scale up

   branch out

   broaden one's horizons

   extend one's operations

   spread

   proliferate

   mushroom

   Opposite:

   shrink

   contract

   condense

   scale down

   • PHYSICS

     (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.

     "the minister expanded on the government's proposals"

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