Add and Express

Add

Add verb - To join (something) to a mass, quantity, or number so as to bring about an overall increase.

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Express and add are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Express" instead a verb "Add".

Nearby Words: added, adding

Express verb - To make known (as an idea, emotion, or opinion).

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Add and express are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Add" instead a verb "Express".

power	add power	express power
confusion	add confusion	express confusion

They're so committed to maintaining stoic expressions that they instead use hand signals to express emotion and add subtext to their words.

Source: Literature / The Wise Man's Fear
Even in the productions that add the rapey undertones, this scene happens before Jud does anything worse than express an interest in the same girl as Curly.

Source: Theatre / Oklahoma!
They express disappointment at not seeing her underwear, and she flips her skirt deliberately to show them her bike shorts just to add insult to injury as she remarks, "Sorry to disappoint."

Source: Modesty Shorts

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