reexpanded

Widened once more

Reexpanded means expanded again after a previous contraction or compression.

The term appears in medical contexts where collapsed tissue regains volume the lung reexpanded after treatment, in technical descriptions of materials returning to original size, and in figurative uses about renewed growth: The company reexpanded into European markets after its earlier retreat.

physical

resized

Altered in scale

distended · inflated · swollen · puffed · bloated · bulged · engorged · decompressed · reinflated · unpacked

scope

broadened

Increased in extent

magnified · amplified · augmented · scaled up · built upon · elaborated · developed · enriched · deepened · diversified

growth

proliferated

Increased rapidly in quantity

  • multipliedIncreased by repeated addition
  • surgedIncreased suddenly and forcefully
  • boomedGrew rapidly or resounded

snowballed · burgeoned · escalated · amplified · augmented · accumulated · ballooned · swelled · intensified · flourished

restoration

rebuilt

Constructed anew

revived · renewed · regenerated · reconstructed · rehabilitated · reclaimed · reformed · relaunched · rebooted

Opposites
physical state/volume

reexpandedcompressed

Reduced by pressure

contracted · collapsed · shrunk · deflated · compacted

process cycle/repetition

reexpandedrecompressed

Squeezed down again

recontracted · recollapsed

process completion

reexpandedunrecovered

Not gotten back

unrestored

Family

reexpanding, reexpand, reexpands

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