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/ɛnlˈɑrdʒ/ /ɪnlˈɑrdʒ/ Listen

verb

Enlarge v. t. (past & past part. enlarged; pres. part. enlarging)

1.

To make larger; to increase in quantity or dimensions; to extend in limits; to magnify; as, the body is enlarged by nutrition; to enlarge one's house. "To enlarge their possessions of land."

2.

To increase the capacity of; to expand; to give free scope or greater scope to; also, to dilate, as with joy, affection, and the like; as, knowledge enlarges the mind. "O ye Corinthians, our... heart is enlarged."

3.

To set at large or set free. (Archaic) "It will enlarge us from all restraints."

Enlarging hammer, a hammer with a slightly rounded face of large diameter; used by gold beaters.

To enlarge an order or To enlarge a rule (Law), to extend the time for complying with it.

To enlarge one's self, to give free vent to speech; to spread out discourse. "They enlarged themselves on this subject."

To enlarge the heart, to make free, liberal, and charitable.

Synonyms: To increase; extend; expand; spread; amplify; augment; magnify. See Increase.

Enlarge v. i.

1.

To grow large or larger; to be further extended; to expand; as, a plant enlarges by growth; an estate enlarges by good management; a volume of air enlarges by rarefaction.

2.

To speak or write at length; to be diffuse in speaking or writing; to expatiate; to dilate. "To enlarge upon this theme."

3.

(Naut.) To get more astern or parallel with the vessel's course; to draw aft; said of the wind.

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Etymology of 'Enlarge'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Enlarge" Quotes from Famous Books

... counselor replied, "Only too convenient! Only too much so!" Under the French Directory, a demi-terme was the name of a framework worn by women to look as if they would soon be mothers.[406] Thirty years ago "poufs" were worn to enlarge the dress on the hips at the side. The "Grecian bend," stooping forward, was an attitude both in walking and standing. Then followed the bustle. Later, the contour was closely fitted by the dress. No one thought that the human figure would be ...

— Folkways - A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals • William Graham Sumner

... collect them, and enlarge them in the way of a book; but they have already been laid before the American public in the columns of the Active Inquirer, I can assure you, gentlemen, that my colleagues of the press have spoken quite favourably of the letters as they appeared. ...

— Homeward Bound - or, The Chase • James Fenimore Cooper

... every form of stage makeup, for men as well as for women, and for every known character part as well as the "straight" makeup for youth. To put all the expert professional makeup knowledge into this book would be to practically crowd out everything else or so enlarge the volume as to make it cumbersome. To avoid this and at the same time meet a strong public demand, I have in contemplation a book devoted exclusively to this important subject, that shall post a world of waiting aspirants for stage honors in every detail of the art of correct ...

— The Art of Stage Dancing - The Story of a Beautiful and Profitable Profession • Ned Wayburn

... the financial investment in each film and in popular magazines were not so exorbitant as to require instant and widespread popularity, men of spirit and imagination would be able to use the screen and the periodical, as one might dream of their being used, to enlarge and to refine, to verify and criticize the repertory of images with which our imaginations work. But, given the present costs, the men who make moving pictures, like the church and the court painters of other ages, must adhere to the stereotypes ...

— Public Opinion • Walter Lippmann

... by conventional restrictions. Absolute confidence in each other's good opinion begat perfect ease, while the finishing stroke of manner, amounting to a truly princely serenity, was lent to the majority by the absence of any expression or trait denoting that they wished to get on in the world, enlarge their minds, or do any eclipsing thing whatever—which nowadays so generally nips the bloom and bonhomie of all except the two extremes of ...

— Wessex Tales • Thomas Hardy

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