Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Peter Mark Roget

extension, augmentation; amplification, ampliation†; aggrandizement, spread, increment, growth, development, pullulation, swell, dilation, rarefaction; turgescence†, turgidness, turgidity; dispansion†; obesity &c (size) 192; hydrocephalus, hydrophthalmus [Med.]; dropsy, tumefaction, intumescence, swelling, tumor, diastole, distension; puffing, puffiness; inflation; pandiculation†. dilatability, expansibility. germination, growth, upgrowth†; accretion &c 35; budding, gemmation†. overgrowth, overdistension†; hypertrophy, tympany†. bulb &c (convexity) 250; plumper; superiority of size. [expansion of the universe] big bang; Hubble constant. V. become larger &c (large) &c 192; expand, widen, enlarge, extend, grow, increase, incrassate†, swell, gather; fill out; deploy, take open order, dilate, stretch, distend, spread; mantle, wax; grow up, spring up; bud, bourgeon [Fr.], shoot, sprout, germinate, put forth, vegetate, pullulate, open, burst forth; gain flesh, gather flesh; outgrow; spread like wildfire, overrun. be larger than; surpass &c (be superior) 33. render larger &c (large) &c 192; expand, spread, extend, aggrandize, distend, develop, amplify, spread out, widen, magnify, rarefy, inflate, puff, blow up, stuff, pad, cram; exaggerate; fatten. Adj. expanded, &c v.; larger, &c (large) &c 192; swollen; expansive; wide open, wide spread; flabelliform†; overgrown, exaggerated, bloated, fat, turgid, tumid, hypertrophied, dropsical; pot bellied, swag bellied†; edematous, oedematous†, obese, puffy, pursy†, blowzy, bigswoln†, distended; patulous; bulbous &c (convex) 250; full blown, full grown, full formed; big &c 192; abdominous†, enchymatous†, rhipidate†; tumefacient†, tumefying†.