Expand and Shut

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Expand

Expand verb - To express more fully and in greater detail.
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Shut is an antonym for expand.
Nearby Words: expanded, expanse, expansion, expansive, expanding

Shut

Shut verb - To stop the operations of.
Usage example: shut both stores for a week
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Synonyms for Shut
Antonyms for Shut
Expand is an antonym for shut.
Nearby Words: shutdown, shutting
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Common collocations

mind expand mind shut mind
place expand place shut place
time expand time shut time
game expand game shut game
Other words: city.

Both words in one sentence

  • A Form You Are Comfortable With In a couple of novels, Q tries to expand Picard's horizons; one time he has them take the form of a 3-headed serpent, but it's too much for Picard; another time, when he takes Picard and Data to the Continuum, the unfiltered sensory perception of the Continuum makes Data shut down.
    Source: A Form You Are Comfortable With
  • The war becomes so brutal and apocalyptic - and the Xenon fleets, now ignored, were allowed to expand exponentially - that the Ancients shut down the jumpgate network, grinding the war - and interstellar civilization - to complete stop instantaneously.
    Source: Guilt-Free Extermination War
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Shut and Expand. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 14, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/expand/shut
Expand & Shut. N.p., 2016. Web. 14 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/expand/shut>.
Shut or Expand. 2016. Accessed August 14, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/expand/shut.

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