spreading out over a wide area, expansion, deployment / development, progression, evolution / (geometry) unfolding (of a solid) / (computing) decompression of a compressed file

spread out, expand, deploy / develop, progress, evolve / (geometry) unfold (a solid) / (computing) decompress a compressed file

gradually, increasingly, bit by bit

he / distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that / boyfriend

distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that, yon / particularly, male personal third person pronoun: he / by extension from he: boyfriend

he; boyfriend

a plan, planning, schedule, conception

to plan, to make a plan, to plot, to lay out

gradually (becoming a certain way)

生, 活: (attaches to nouns) vigorous, lively, powerful / 幾: (attaches to nouns) implies an indeterminate amount: several, many, much, a lot