dilate🔊

To enlarge; to make bigger.

To become wider or larger; to expand.

To speak largely and copiously; to dwell in narration; to enlarge; with "on" or "upon".

To use a dilator to widen (something, such as a vagina).

To delay, defer.

To prolong, lengthen.

(archaic) Carried in different ways, spread, abroad, dispersed, published.