The answers listed here for “Expanded” are not assumptions—they’ve been pulled directly from finished puzzles where solvers encountered and resolved the same clue successfully.
Possible Answers:
- GREW
- WIDEN
- BIGGER
- ENLARGED
- BROADENED
- WIDENED
- SPLAYED
- SWELLED
- DILATED
- SWOLLEN
- DISTENDED
Synonyms and Definitions
GREW
- Synonyms: acquire, arise, develop, farm, get, grow, maturate, mature, originate, produce, raise, rise, spring up, turn, uprise
WIDEN
- Synonyms: broaden, extend, let out
BIGGER
- Synonyms: adult, bad, big, bighearted, boastful, bounteous, bountiful, braggart, bragging, braggy, cock-a-hoop, crowing, enceinte, expectant, freehanded, full-grown, fully grown, giving, gravid, great, grown, grownup, handsome, heavy, large, larger, liberal, magnanimous, openhanded, prominent, self-aggrandising, self-aggrandizing, swelled, vainglorious, with child
ENLARGED
- Synonyms: blow up, blown-up, dilate, elaborate, enlarge, exaggerated, expand, expatiate, exposit, expound, flesh out, hypertrophied, lucubrate, magnified, magnify
BROADENED
- Synonyms: branch out, diversify, widen
SPLAYED
- Synonyms: dislocate, luxate, rotate, slip, splay, spread out, turn out
SWELLED
- Synonyms: intumesce, puff up, swell, swell up, tumefy, tumesce, well, well up
DILATED
- Synonyms: distend
SWOLLEN
- Synonyms: conceited, egotistic, egotistical, self-conceited, swollen-headed, vain