dilate

Từ điển Oxford Learners Wordfinder Dictionary

verb

1. become wider (Freq. 6)
- His pupils were dilated
• Syn:
distend
• Derivationally related forms:
distensible (for: distend), distention (for: distend), distension (for: distend), dilator, dilation, dilatation
• Hypernyms:
widen
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s
- Somebody ----s something
- Something ----s something
2. add details, as to an account or idea;
clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing
- She elaborated on the main ideas in her dissertation
• Syn:
elaborate, lucubrate, expatiate, exposit, enlarge,
flesh out, expand, expound
• Ant:
contract (for: expand)
• Derivationally related forms:
dilation, expository (for: expound), exponent (for: expound), expounding (for: expound), expansion (for: expand), enlargement (for: enlarge), exposition (for: exposit), expatiation (for: expatiate), lucubration (for: lucubrate), elaboration (for: elaborate)
• Hypernyms:
clarify, clear up, elucidate
• Hyponyms:
detail, set forth, expound, exposit, exemplify,
exemplify, instance, specify, particularize, particularise,
specialize, specialise
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s
- Somebody ----s something
- Something ----s something
- Somebody ----s PP

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  elaborate, lucubrate, expatiate, exposit, enlarge, flesh out, expand, expound, distend
• Từ trái nghĩa / Antonyms:
  abridge, foreshorten, abbreviate, shorten, cut, contract, reduce