What are the opposite words for contract?
The word "contract" has several antonyms that can be used to express the opposite meaning. The antonyms of the term "contract" may include expand, increase, enlarge, dilate, extend, broaden, or escalate. Expand is used when the meaning is to grow, or increase in size, volume, or quantity. Enlarge, on the other hand, involves making something larger in size or scope. Dilate means to expand or stretch upwards or outwards, while extend means to broaden or prolong something. To broaden something, one can use the antonym "narrow." Escalate is used when referring to situations that become more intense or severe. These antonyms can be used to express the opposite meaning of the word "contract.
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- intensify
- increase
- motion
- exaggerate
- expand
- blow
- thicken
- heighten
- extend
- lengthen
- prosper
- unfold
- accumulate
- amplify
- bulge
- condense
- display
- enlarge
- fill
- inspissate
- open up
- protrude
- pump
- raise
- ramify
- rise
- spread out
- stick out
- wax
- aggrandize
- balloon
- boom
- branch
- dilate
- elongate
- embroider
- enhance
- fan
- fatten
- grow
- heave
- hyperbolize
- inflate
- magnify
- overstate
- provoke
- puff
- spread
- strain
- swell
- widen
- gather or amass something
- cause something to seem or be greater, bigger
- increase in size or effect
- make greater; improve
- billow out; bloat
- bloat
- blow up like a balloon
- blast, rush of air, wind
- stretch
- increase, accelerate
- project outward
- come to terms
- catch disease
- expand, work out
- stretch, widen
- distend
- show for public viewing, effect
- bulge, swell
- make longer
- exaggerate information
- improve, embellish
- make or grow bigger; increase
- increase, be increased
- augment
- overstate, embellish
- make larger, longer
- grow or make bigger; nourish
- to put in and occupy the whole of
- gain, increase
- become larger, evolve
- discharge with force; expel from digestive system by mouth
- add or grow
- enlarge, intensify
- increase, grow
- inhale or exhale air
- draw or push out
- increase, augment
- open or fan out
- stretch, often to limit
- extend, elongate
- become large, fuller
- agreement, deal
- Other relevant words
- Other antonyms
- intensify
- increase
- motion
-
exaggerate
- hyperbolize,
- overdraw,
- overstate,
- pretty up,
- Caricatured,
- Caricaturing,
- Misreport,
- Overdrew,
- Overdrawn,
- Overdrawing,
- Romanced,
- Romancing,
- misreporting,
- scamming,
- scammed,
- misreported,
- go to extremes,
- lay it on thick,
- make too much of,
- blow out of proportion,
- blew out of proportion,
- blew out proportion,
- blow out proportion,
- blowing out of proportion,
- blowing out proportion,
- blows out of proportion,
- blows out proportion,
- goes to extremes,
- going extremes,
- laid it on thick,
- laid it thick,
- laid on thick,
- laid thick,
- lay it thick,
- lay on thick,
- lay thick,
- laying it on thick,
- laying it thick,
- laying on thick,
- laying thick,
- lays it on thick,
- lays it thick,
- lays on thick,
- lays thick,
- loud talk,
- loud talked,
- loud talking,
- loud talks,
- made too much of,
- makes too much of,
- making too much of,
- mis quoted,
- mis quotes,
- mis quoting,
- mis report,
- mis reporting,
- mis reports,
- mis represent,
- mis represented,
- mis representing,
- mis represents,
- mis-quote,
- mis-quoted,
- mis-quotes,
- mis-quoting,
- mis-report,
- mis-reported,
- mis-reporting,
- mis-represent,
- mis-represented,
- mis-representing,
- mis-represents,
- misreports,
- over draw,
- over drawing,
- over draws,
- over drew,
- over-draw,
- over-drawing,
- over-drawn,
- over-draws,
- over-drew,
- overdraws,
- prettied up,
- prettying up,
- went extremes,
- went to extremes.
-
expand
- expand,
- expanding,
- fan out,
- outspread,
- piggyback,
- tack on,
- thicken,
- thickening,
- piggybacks,
- outspreading,
- bulk up,
- bulked up,
- bulking up,
- bulks up,
- de tail,
- de tailed,
- de tailing,
- de tails,
- de-tail,
- de-tailed,
- de-tailing,
- de-tails,
- dis course,
- dis coursed,
- dis courses,
- dis coursing,
- dis-course,
- dis-coursed,
- dis-courses,
- dis-coursing,
- ex plicate,
- ex plicated,
- ex plicates,
- ex plicating,
- ex-plicate,
- ex-plicated,
- ex-plicates,
- ex-plicating,
- fanned out,
- fanning out,
- fans out,
- out spread,
- out spreading,
- out spreads,
- out-spread,
- out-spreading,
- out-spreads,
- outspreads,
- slaps on,
- spreading out,
- stretches out,
- tacked on,
- tacking on,
- tacks on,
- un ravel,
- un raveled,
- un raveling,
- un ravelled,
- un ravelling,
- un ravels,
- un-ravel,
- un-raveled,
- un-raveling,
- un-ravelled,
- un-ravelling,
- un-ravels,
- up-surged.
- blow
- thicken
- heighten
-
extend
- bring forward,
- crane,
- lengthen,
- mantled,
- put forward,
- reach out,
- string out,
- Lasted,
- Mantling,
- Tendered,
- Tendering,
- run on,
- Craned,
- Craning,
- reaches out,
- reached out,
- reaching out,
- tenders,
- cranes,
- branch off,
- put forth,
- brought forward,
- be stow,
- be stowed,
- be stowing,
- be stows,
- be-stow,
- be-stowed,
- be-stowing,
- be-stows,
- bringing forward,
- brings forward,
- ex tend,
- ex tended,
- ex tending,
- ex tends,
- ex-tend,
- ex-tended,
- ex-tending,
- ex-tends,
- place at disposal,
- place disposal,
- placed at disposal,
- places at disposal,
- places disposal,
- placing at disposal,
- placing disposal,
- puts forth,
- puts forward,
- putting forth,
- putting forward,
- ran on,
- runs on,
- stringed out,
- stringing out,
- strings out,
- strung out.
- lengthen
-
prosper
- boom.
-
unfold
- unbend,
- unbent,
- uncreased,
- uncurl,
- uncurled,
- uncurling,
- uncurls,
- shake out,
- reel out,
- dis entangle,
- dis entangled,
- dis entangles,
- dis entangling,
- dis-entangle,
- dis-entangled,
- dis-entangles,
- dis-entangling,
- re lease,
- re leases,
- re-lease,
- re-leased,
- re-leases,
- reeled out,
- reels out,
- shakes out,
- shaking out,
- shook out,
- un bend,
- un bended,
- un bending,
- un bends,
- un bent,
- un crease,
- un creased,
- un creasing,
- un curl,
- un curled,
- un curling,
- un curls,
- un did,
- un does,
- un doing,
- un done,
- un fold,
- un folded,
- un folding,
- un folds,
- un wrap,
- un wrapped,
- un wrapping,
- un wraps,
- un-bend,
- un-bended,
- un-bending,
- un-bends,
- un-bent,
- un-crease,
- un-creased,
- un-creases,
- un-creasing,
- un-curl,
- un-curled,
- un-curling,
- un-curls,
- un-did,
- un-does,
- un-doing,
- un-fold,
- un-folded,
- un-folding,
- un-folds,
- un-wrap,
- un-wrapping,
- un-wraps,
- unbended,
- uncrease,
- uncreases,
- uncreasing.
-
accumulate
- agglomerated,
- bring together,
- clean up,
- draw together,
- pile up,
- roll up,
- stack up,
- Agglomerating,
- Massing,
- scare up,
- bringing together,
- brought together,
- piled up,
- make a killing,
- brings together,
- cleaned up,
- cleaning up,
- cleans up,
- drawing together,
- draws together,
- drew together,
- heaped together,
- heaping together,
- heaps together,
- in corporate,
- in corporates,
- in-corporate,
- in-corporates,
- loaded up,
- loading up,
- made a bundle,
- made a killing,
- made bundle,
- made killing,
- make a bundle,
- make bundle,
- make killing,
- makes a bundle,
- makes a killing,
- makes bundle,
- makes killing,
- making a bundle,
- making a killing,
- making bundle,
- making killing,
- piles up,
- pro cure,
- pro cured,
- pro cures,
- pro curing,
- pro fit,
- pro fits,
- pro-cure,
- pro-cured,
- pro-cures,
- pro-curing,
- pro-fits,
- rolling up,
- rolls up,
- scared up,
- scaring up,
- stacked up,
- stacking up,
- stacks up,
- stored up,
- stores up,
- storing up.
- amplify
- bulge
- condense
-
display
- making known,
- set out,
- stretch out,
- stretched out,
- Re-present,
- showcasing,
- showcases,
- showcased,
- lay bare,
- make known,
- open out,
- Grand-stand,
- made known,
- make clear,
- laid bare,
- made clear,
- be tray,
- be trays,
- be-tray,
- be-trays,
- bring to view,
- bring view,
- bringing to view,
- bringing view,
- brings to view,
- brings view,
- brought to view,
- brought view,
- dis close,
- dis closed,
- dis closes,
- dis closing,
- dis play,
- dis played,
- dis playing,
- dis plays,
- dis-close,
- dis-closed,
- dis-closes,
- dis-closing,
- dis-play,
- dis-played,
- dis-playing,
- dis-plays,
- ex pose,
- ex posed,
- ex-pose,
- ex-posed,
- ex-posing,
- grand stand,
- grand standing,
- grand stands,
- grand-standing,
- grand-stands,
- laying bare,
- makes clear,
- makes known,
- opened out,
- opening out,
- opens out,
- pre sent,
- pre-sent,
- pre-sents,
- re present,
- re presented,
- re presenting,
- re presents,
- re veals,
- re-presented,
- re-presenting,
- re-presents,
- re-veal,
- re-veals,
- sets out,
- setting out,
- spread out,
- spreads out,
- stretching out,
- un cover,
- un covered,
- un covering,
- un covers,
- un furled,
- un furling,
- un mask,
- un masked,
- un masking,
- un masks,
- un roll,
- un rolled,
- un rolling,
- un rolls,
- un veil,
- un veiled,
- un veiling,
- un veils,
- un-cover,
- un-covering,
- un-covers,
- un-furled,
- un-furling,
- un-mask,
- un-masked,
- un-masking,
- un-masks,
- un-roll,
- un-rolled,
- un-rolling,
- un-rolls,
- un-veil,
- un-veiled,
- un-veiling,
- un-veils.
-
enlarge
- diffused,
- diffusing,
- slap on,
- Bulked,
- Bulking,
- diffuses,
- upsurging,
- gave details,
- give details,
- gives details,
- giving details,
- grew larger,
- grow larger,
- growing larger,
- grows larger,
- jazzes up,
- jazzing up,
- made larger,
- make larger,
- makes larger,
- slapped on,
- slapping on,
- up surge,
- up surged,
- up surges,
- up surging,
- up-surge,
- up-surges,
- up-surging,
- upsurged.
-
fill
- brim over,
- bulge out,
- jampack,
- overspread,
- overspreading,
- stoppered,
- Shoaled,
- Shoaling,
- Stoppering,
- pump up,
- brimmed over,
- brimming over,
- brims over,
- bulged out,
- bulges out,
- bulging out,
- jam pack,
- pumped up,
- over flow,
- over flowed,
- over flowing,
- over flown,
- over flows,
- over spread,
- over spreads,
- over-flow,
- over-flowed,
- over-flowing,
- over-flown,
- over-flows,
- over-spreading,
- over-spreads,
- packed like sardines,
- packing like sardines,
- packs like sardines,
- pumps up,
- rammed in,
- ramming in,
- rams in,
- re plenish,
- re plenished,
- re plenishes,
- re plenishing,
- re-plenished,
- re-plenishes,
- re-plenishing,
- topped off,
- topping off,
- tops off.
- inspissate
- open up
- protrude
- pump
-
raise
- fetch up,
- forgather,
- shoot up,
- gooses,
- goosing,
- forgathering,
- forgathers,
- forgathered,
- shooting up,
- congressed,
- congressing,
- fetched up,
- goose up,
- goosed,
- goosed up,
- gooses up,
- goosing up,
- send through roof,
- send through the roof,
- sending through roof,
- sending through the roof,
- sends through roof,
- sends through the roof,
- sent through roof,
- sent through the roof,
- shoots up.
- ramify
- rise
- spread out
- stick out
- wax
- aggrandize
- balloon
- boom
- branch
-
dilate
- protract,
- spin off,
- Prolonging,
- am profuse,
- am prolix,
- are profuse,
- are prolix,
- art profuse,
- art prolix,
- be profuse,
- be prolix,
- being profuse,
- being prolix,
- ex pound,
- ex pounded,
- ex pounding,
- ex pounds,
- ex-pound,
- ex-pounded,
- ex-pounding,
- ex-pounds,
- is profuse,
- is prolix,
- pro long,
- pro longing,
- pro longs,
- pro tract,
- pro tracts,
- pro-long,
- pro-longed,
- pro-longing,
- pro-longs,
- pro-tract,
- pro-tracts,
- span off,
- spinning off,
- spins off,
- spun off,
- was profuse,
- was prolix,
- wast profuse,
- wast prolix,
- were profuse,
- were prolix,
- wert profuse,
- wert prolix.
-
elongate
- drag one's feet,
- let out,
- spin out,
- spun out,
- drag feet,
- drag one feet,
- drag ones feet,
- dragged feet,
- dragged one feet,
- dragged one's feet,
- dragged ones feet,
- dragging feet,
- dragging one feet,
- dragging one's feet,
- dragging ones feet,
- drags feet,
- drags one feet,
- drags one's feet,
- drags ones feet,
- lets out,
- letted out,
- letting out,
- put rubber in,
- puts rubber in,
- putting rubber in,
- span out,
- spinning out,
- spins out.
-
embroider
- over-embellished,
- overemphasize,
- overestimate,
- overestimated,
- overestimates,
- overestimating,
- overemphasizes,
- yeasting,
- overemphasized,
- over-estimate,
- stretch the truth,
- stretching the truth,
- blow upped,
- blow upping,
- blow ups,
- blow-up,
- blow-upped,
- blow-upping,
- blow-ups,
- blowupped,
- blowupping,
- co loring,
- co-loring,
- made federal case,
- made mountain out molehill,
- made mountain out of molehill,
- make federal case,
- make mountain out molehill,
- make mountain out of molehill,
- makes mountain out molehill,
- makes mountain out of molehill,
- making federal case,
- making mountain out molehill,
- making mountain out of molehill,
- over did,
- over does,
- over doing,
- over done,
- over elaborate,
- over elaborated,
- over elaborating,
- over embellished,
- over embellishes,
- over emphasize,
- over emphasized,
- over emphasizes,
- over emphasizing,
- over estimate,
- over estimated,
- over estimates,
- over estimating,
- over-did,
- over-doing,
- over-elaborate,
- over-elaborates,
- over-elaborating,
- over-embellish,
- over-embellishes,
- over-embellishing,
- over-emphasize,
- over-emphasizes,
- over-emphasizing,
- over-estimated,
- over-estimates,
- over-estimating,
- overelaborate,
- overelaborated,
- overelaborating,
- overembellish,
- overembellished,
- overembellishing,
- spread on thick,
- spread thick,
- spreading on thick,
- spreading thick,
- spreads on thick,
- spreads thick,
- stretch truth,
- stretched the truth,
- stretched truth,
- stretching truth,
- yeasted.
- enhance
- fan
-
fatten
- coarsen,
- coarsened,
- overfed,
- overfeed,
- plumping,
- coarsening,
- coarsens,
- plumps,
- co arsen,
- co-arsen,
- gain weight,
- gained weight,
- gaining weight,
- gains weight,
- over feed,
- over feeding,
- over feeds,
- over-feed,
- over-feeds,
- put flesh on,
- put on weight,
- put weight,
- puts flesh on,
- puts on weight,
- puts weight,
- putting on weight,
- rounded out,
- rounding out,
- rounds out.
-
grow
- branch out,
- burst forth,
- pop up,
- spring up,
- be came,
- be come,
- be comes,
- be coming,
- be-came,
- be-come,
- be-comes,
- be-coming,
- bursted forth,
- bursting forth,
- bursts forth,
- came be,
- came to be,
- come be,
- come to be,
- comes be,
- comes to be,
- coming be,
- coming to be,
- gat bigger,
- gat taller,
- get bigger,
- get taller,
- gets bigger,
- gets taller,
- getting bigger,
- getting taller,
- got bigger,
- got taller,
- gotten bigger,
- gotten taller,
- popped up,
- popping up,
- pops up,
- pro duce,
- pro duces,
- pro-duces,
- sprang up,
- springs up.
-
heave
- retch,
- suspire,
- upchuck,
- Retched,
- Retching,
- Suspired,
- suspires,
- suspiring,
- upchucks,
- retches,
- dis gorge,
- dis gorged,
- dis gorges,
- dis gorging,
- dis-gorge,
- dis-gorged,
- dis-gorges,
- dis-gorging,
- spat up,
- spits up,
- spitted up,
- spitting up,
- up chuck,
- up chucked,
- up chucking,
- up chucks,
- up-chuck,
- up-chucked,
- up-chucking,
- up-chucks,
- upchucked,
- upchucking.
- hyperbolize
- inflate
- magnify
- overstate
-
provoke
- fan.
- puff
-
spread
- even out,
- roll out,
- rolled out,
- uncoil,
- uncoiled,
- untwist,
- untwisted,
- untwisting,
- am displayed,
- am distributed,
- are displayed,
- are distributed,
- be displayed,
- be distributed,
- being displayed,
- being distributed,
- dis perse,
- dis-perse,
- evened out,
- evening out,
- evens out,
- is displayed,
- is distributed,
- out stretch,
- out stretches,
- out stretching,
- out-stretch,
- out-stretched,
- out-stretches,
- out-stretching,
- over laid,
- over laying,
- over lays,
- over-laid,
- over-lay,
- over-laying,
- over-lays,
- pre pare,
- pre pared,
- pre pares,
- pre paring,
- pre-pare,
- pre-pared,
- pre-paring,
- rolling out,
- rolls out,
- un coil,
- un coiled,
- un coiling,
- un coils,
- un twist,
- un twisting,
- un twists,
- un wind,
- un winding,
- un winds,
- un wound,
- un-coil,
- un-coiled,
- un-coiling,
- un-coils,
- un-twist,
- un-twisted,
- un-twisting,
- un-twists,
- un-winding,
- un-winds,
- un-wound,
- uncoiling,
- uncoils,
- untwists,
- was displayed,
- was distributed,
- wast displayed,
- wast distributed,
- were displayed,
- were distributed,
- wert displayed,
- wert distributed.
-
strain
- overexert,
- overtax,
- Spraining,
- overtaxed,
- overtaxing,
- overexerting,
- overexerted,
- over-wrought,
- draw tight,
- drawing tight,
- drew tight,
- over exert,
- over exerted,
- over exerting,
- over exerts,
- over tax,
- over taxes,
- over taxing,
- over worked,
- over working,
- over works,
- over-exert,
- over-exerted,
- over-exerting,
- over-exerts,
- over-tax,
- over-taxed,
- over-taxes,
- over-taxing,
- over-worked,
- over-works,
- overexerts,
- overtaxes,
- push limit,
- push the limit,
- push to limit,
- pushed limit,
- pushed the limit,
- pushed to limit,
- pushed to the limit,
- pushes the limit,
- pushes to limit,
- pushes to the limit,
- pushing limit,
- pushing to limit,
- pushing to the limit.
-
swell
- blistered,
- round out,
- swell,
- swelled,
- tumefy,
- well up,
- Plumped,
- Tumefied,
- Tumefying,
- are inflated,
- art inflated,
- be inflated,
- became bloated,
- became distended,
- became swollen,
- become bloated,
- become distended,
- become swollen,
- becomes bloated,
- becomes distended,
- becomes swollen,
- becoming bloated,
- becoming distended,
- becoming swollen,
- being inflated,
- in tensity,
- in-tensity,
- intensitied,
- intensitying,
- is inflated,
- tumefies,
- up rise,
- up risen,
- up rises,
- up rising,
- up rose,
- up-rise,
- up-risen,
- up-rises,
- up-rose,
- was inflated,
- wast inflated,
- welled up,
- welling up,
- wells up,
- were inflated,
- wert inflated.
- widen
- gather or amass something
- cause something to seem or be greater, bigger
- increase in size or effect
- make greater; improve
- billow out; bloat
- bloat
- blow up like a balloon
-
blast, rush of air, wind
- blow.
- stretch
- increase, accelerate
- project outward
-
come to terms
- break,
- confuse,
- derange,
- disapprove,
- disarrange,
- discourage,
- disorder,
- disorganize,
- dissent,
- end,
- refuse,
- reject.
- catch disease
- expand, work out
- stretch, widen
- distend
- show for public viewing, effect
- bulge, swell
- make longer
- exaggerate information
- improve, embellish
- make or grow bigger; increase
- increase, be increased
- augment
- overstate, embellish
- make larger, longer
- grow or make bigger; nourish
-
to put in and occupy the whole of
- fill.
- gain, increase
-
become larger, evolve
- grow.
- discharge with force; expel from digestive system by mouth
- add or grow
- enlarge, intensify
-
increase, grow
- rise.
-
inhale or exhale air
- puff.
-
draw or push out
- pump.
- increase, augment
- open or fan out
- stretch, often to limit
- extend, elongate
-
become large, fuller
- wax.
- agreement, deal
-
Other relevant words
- accelerate,
- accumulate,
- add,
- adjoin,
- aggrandize,
- amplify,
- append,
- appreciate,
- augment,
- avoid,
- balloon,
- beetle,
- build up,
- burgeon,
- bypass,
- cashier,
- circumvent,
- communicate,
- convey,
- defer,
- develop,
- dismiss,
- draw out,
- elude,
- escalate,
- eschew,
- evade,
- extend,
- get around,
- give,
- lengthen,
- multiply,
- mushroom,
- muster out,
- outspread,
- postpone,
- procrastinate,
- proliferate,
- prolong,
- protract,
- retire,
- rocket,
- scape,
- shirk,
- shortcut,
- shun,
- sidestep,
- skyrocket,
- snowball,
- stand out,
- stoke,
- terminate,
- transfuse,
- turn off,
- unfold,
- unfurl,
- Outstretch,
- elaborate,
- expatiate,
- exposit,
- expound,
- flesh out,
- lucubrate,
- elongate.
-
Other antonyms
- augment,
- blow,
- boost,
- bring forward,
- build,
- cancel,
- clean up,
- decline,
- defer,
- dismiss,
- disperse,
- dissipate,
- draw together,
- enhance,
- fan,
- fill,
- gain,
- gather,
- go up,
- heal,
- jellied,
- let out,
- magnify,
- mantled,
- mend,
- overspread,
- pile up,
- rally,
- recover,
- relax,
- roll up,
- scatter,
- shake,
- slap on,
- speed up,
- stir up,
- stoppered,
- strain,
- tack on,
- tag on,
- terminate,
- thicken,
- turn down,
- untwist,
- run on,
- gelling,
- drag feet,
- drawing together.
Antonym of the day
split down the middle
- Antonyms:
- combine, join.
