RETRENCHES Antonyms

• extend in one or more directions

• become larger in size or volume or quantity

• make bigger or wider in size, volume, or quantity

• grow vigorously

• exaggerate or make bigger

• add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing

• expand the influence of

• pass into a condition gradually, take on a specific property or attribute; become

• become larger, greater, or bigger; expand or gain

• increase in size by natural process

• cause to grow or develop

• develop and reach maturity; undergo maturation

• come into existence; take on form or shape

• cultivate by growing, often involving improvements by means of agricultural techniques

• come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes)

• grow emotionally or mature

• become attached by or as if by the process of growth

• a quantity that is added

• a change resulting in an increase

• a process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important

• the amount by which something increases

• the act of increasing something

• become bigger or greater in amount

• make bigger or more

• give free rein to

• yield (to); give satisfaction to

• enjoy to excess

• treat with excessive indulgence

• very generous

• characterized by extravagance and profusion

• expend profusely; also used with abstract nouns

• become extravagant; indulge (oneself) luxuriously

• enjoy to excess

• thrive profusely or flourish extensively

• use up a period of time in a specific way

• pay out

• spend completely

• an ostentatious display (of effort or extravagance etc.)

• any act of immoderate indulgence

• indulge oneself

• be showy or ostentatious

• spend thoughtlessly; throw away

• spend extravagantly