Synonyms for enlarge
ɛnˈlɑrdʒen·large

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1. enlarge

   To add is to increase by adjoining or uniting: in distinction from multiply, which is to increase by repeating. To augment a thing is to increase it by any means, but this word is seldom used directly of material objects; we do not augment a house, a farm, a nation, etc. We may enlarge a house, a farm, or an empire, extend influence or dominion, augment riches, power or influence, attach or annex a building to one that it adjoins or papers to the document they refer to, annex a clause or a codicil, affix a seal or a signature, annex a territory, attach a condition to a promise. A speaker may amplify a discourse by a fuller treatment throughout than was originally planned, or he may append or subjoin certain remarks without change of what has gone before. We cast up or sum up an account, though add up and make up are now more usual expressions.

   Synonyms:
   add, adjoin, affix, amplify, annex, append, attach, augment, cast up, extend, increase, join on, make up, subjoin, sum up

   Antonyms:
   abstract, deduct, diminish, dissever, lessen, reduce, remove, subtract, withdraw

   Preposition:
   Other items are to be added to the account.

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1. enlarge

   Synonyms:
   amplify, expand, augment, broaden, swell, stretch out, extend, stretch, dilate, increase

   Antonyms:
   narrow, lessen, contract, restrict, diminish, curtail, reduce

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1. enlargeverb

   make larger

   "She enlarged the flower beds"

   Synonyms:
   exposit, elaborate, expatiate, dilate, flesh out, expound, expand, lucubrate, blow up, magnify

2. blow up, enlarge, magnifyverb

   make large

   "blow up an image"

   Synonyms:
   go ballistic, lucubrate, expatiate, puff out, exposit, detonate, have kittens, flip one's wig, embroider, puff up, expound, flesh out, puff, hit the roof, explode, throw a fit, combust, flip one's lid, magnify, expand, dilate, amplify, pad, embellish, lard, fly off the handle, set off, lose one's temper, overstate, blow a fuse, hit the ceiling, blow up, exaggerate, aggrandise, have a fit, dramatise, elaborate, inflate, aggrandize, overdraw, hyperbolize, hyperbolise, dramatize, blow one's stack

3. enlargeverb

   become larger or bigger

   Synonyms:
   exposit, elaborate, expatiate, dilate, flesh out, expound, expand, lucubrate, blow up, magnify

4. elaborate, lucubrate, expatiate, exposit, enlarge, flesh out, expand, expound, dilateverb

   add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing

   "She elaborated on the main ideas in her dissertation"

   Synonyms:
   work out, refine, fat, expound, fatten, exposit, dilate, fill out, spread out, extend, amplify, blow up, rarify, lucubrate, set forth, fatten up, thrive, elaborate, magnify, plump, expatiate, inflate, expand, fatten out, flesh out, complicate, plump out, boom, flourish, distend, round

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1. • Grow
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1. make bigger

   Submitted by anonymous on December 18, 2019  

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1. enlargeverb

   Synonyms:
   increase, augment, extend, expand, magnify, amplify, make larger, make greater

2. enlargeverb

   Synonyms:
   expatiate, dilate, descant, speak at length, launch out

3. enlargeverb

   Synonyms:
   increase, swell, grow, extend, expand, grow larger

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1. enlargeverb

   Synonyms:
   magnify, amplify, augment, expand, develop, increase, extend, swell, dilate, descant, launch out, expatiate, ennoble, broaden

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1. List of paraphrases for "enlarge":

   expand, broaden, extend, widen, enlargement, expanding, magnify, expansion, increase

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How to use enlarge in a sentence?

1. William Shakespeare:

   Glory is like a circle in the water, which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, till by broad spreading it disperses to naught.

2. Mary Howitt:

   God sends children for another purpose than merely to keep up the race - to enlarge our hearts; and to make us unselfish and full of kindly sympathies and affection; to give our shoulds higher aims; to call out all our faculties to extended enterprise and exertion and to bring round our firesides bright faces, happy smiles, and loving, tender hearts. My soul blesses the great Father, every day, that he has gladdened the earth with little children

3. Photographer Daniel Kariko:

   That's what first attracted me to this, with the naked eye, you see the insect as brown bug. But when you enlarge it, you really see the wonderful colors that come from the process.

4. Nathan M. Pusey:

   The teacher's task is not to implant facts but to place the subject to be learned in front of the learner and, through sympathy, emotion, imagination and patience, to awaken in the learner the restless drive for answers and insights which enlarge the personal life and give it meaning.

5. Orison Swett Marden:

   We lift ourselves by our thought, we climb upon our vision of ourselves. If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself. Hold the ideal of yourself as you long to be, always, everywhere - your ideal of what you long to attain - the ideal of health, efficiency, success.