ENLARGED • DICCIONARIO INGLES.COM • Definition of Enlarged

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/ɛnlˈɑrdʒd/ /ɪnlˈɑrdʒd/ 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.

adjective

Enlarged adj. Made large or larger; extended; swollen.

See images of 'Enlarged'

Etymology of 'Enlarged'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

Share |

"Enlarged" Quotes from Famous Books

... Sarzana; but the place being very strong, before he could carry it, he was obliged to build a fortress as near it as he could. This new fort in two months' time rendered him master of the whole country, and is the same fort that at this day is called Sarzanella, repaired since and much enlarged by the Florentines. Supported by the credit of so glorious an exploit, he reduced Massa, Carrara, and Lavenza very easily: he seized likewise upon the whole country of Lunigiana ... so that, full of glory, he returned to Lucca, where the people thronged to meet him, ...

— Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa • Edward Hutton

... respects," went on the Bishop. "There is a great work to do there,—a great work. It requires a man of Brother Forcythe's energy to meet it. Mistress Mary here will doubtless find consolation in the thought that her father's sphere of usefulness is—h'm—enlarged." ...

— Nine Little Goslings • Susan Coolidge

... plant is the tuber, a thick, fleshy mass or enlarged portion of an underground stem, having upon its surface a number of little buds, or "eyes," each capable of independent growth. The tuber is made up of little cells filled with starch granules, surrounded and permeated with a watery fluid ...

— Science in the Kitchen. • Mrs. E. E. Kellogg

... we have the whole case before us. The belief on which modern love rests, and which makes it so single and so sacred is, as it were, drawn for us on an enlarged scale: and we see that it is a belief to which positivism has no right. The belief, indeed, is by no means a modern thing. Rudiments of it on the contrary are as old as man himself, and may represent a something ...

— Is Life Worth Living? • William Hurrell Mallock

... appertaining to war delighteth the fair creature as much as it did that rare author, Will Shakspeare's Desdemona. If I had been as black as the Moor—ay, or as the devil himself—my prowess at Bothwell would have given this person of mine, albeit somewhat enlarged, the properties of beauty in the eyes of noble-spirited women—so much do our bodies borrow from the qualities of ...

— Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 17 • Alexander Leighton

Copyright © 2025 Diccionario ingles.com