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Antonyms for enlarge
ɛnˈlɑrdʒen·large

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English Synonyms and Antonyms3.3 / 4 votes

  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.

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

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

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

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms0.0 / 0 votes

  1. enlarge

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

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

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Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  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

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. enlargeverb

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

How to use enlarge in a sentence?

  1. Seymour Kagan:

    The president or someone in the VA should change the rule to reflect the pandemic and enlarge the vaccination program to any veteran, this would have the added benefit of increasing the distribution of the vaccine at a faster rate rather than going through the states -- it would also reduce the demand on the states of those people who are veterans who would get the shot directly through the VA clinic.

  2. William Shakespeare:

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

  3. National Police spokesman Prawut Thavonsiri:

    These mix of chemicals you can easily obtain anywhere legally, but when you combine them, they become a chemical that is quick to catch fire and can be developed to become a detonator, this formula can also be used to enlarge the radius of the bomb. It could be used for both of the bombings. But when the bomb detonates, this element (if used in the bomb) would disappear immediately because it's an amplifier.

  4. Zep Lee:

    Definitely, we will continue to enlarge our fleet and increase our number of aircraft in the future, growth in the number of our self-owned aircraft will be in the double-digits next year.

  5. 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.

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Words popularity by usage frequency

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#1204contract
#1475abstract
#1651remove
#2036reduce
#2479enlarge
#3889narrow
#9424restrict
#10524withdraw
#20729subtract
#21475diminish
#22480deduct
#25048lessen
#43430curtail

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