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vt,vi 1 panua, tanua; panuka; kuza the farm was ~ed by 100 hectares shamba lilipanuliwa kwa hekta 100. 2 kunjua; funua. 3 (of a person) -wa mkunjufu. 4 ~ on fafanua, eleza zaidi. expanded n (maths). ~ed form n ufafanuzi. expandible adj. expanse n eneo pana na wazi. expansion n 1 (tech) mtanuko. 2 uenezi, upanuzi. expansion pipe n bomba panuzi. expansion policy n sera ya upanuzi. expansive adj 1 -enye kutanua; -enye kutanuka, kuvimba, -a mtanuko. 2 (of persons, speech) kunjufu, wazi. expansively adv. expansiveness n.