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verb
To make (something) larger.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Synonyms: embiggen, enlargen, largen, greaten, add, amplify, augment, dilate, eke / eke out, elevate, enhance, enlarge, enrich, grow, increase, increment, magnify, propagate, raise, strengthen, swell, up
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To grow larger.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: expand, grow, accelerate, accrue, aggrandize, augment, embiggen, enhance, enlarge, greaten, heighten, increase, swell, wax, wind up
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To increase the capacity of; to expand; to give free scope or greater scope to; also, to dilate, as with joy, affection, etc.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Synonyms: expand
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To speak or write at length upon or on (some subject); expand; elaborate
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: dilate, expatiate, expound
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To release; to set at large.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: free, liberate, set free
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To get more astern or parallel with the vessel's course; to draw aft; said of the wind.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: nautical, transport
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To extend the time allowed for compliance with (an order or rule).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: law
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
make larger
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: increase
Narrower terms: expand, ream, deepen
verb
become larger or bigger
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: grow
Narrower terms: magnify, amplify
verb
make large
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: blow up, magnify
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: increase
verb
add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: elaborate, lucubrate, expatiate, exposit, flesh out, expand, expound, dilate
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: clarify, clear up, elucidate
Narrower terms: detail, set forth, expound, exposit, exemplify, illustrate, instance, specify, particularize, particularise, specialize, specialise
History
From Middle English enlargen, from Old French enlargier, enlargir. By surface analysis, en- + large.
Across languages
69 source translations are retained for this English entry.
