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
   • Increase
   • Photography

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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. Grace Mugabe:

   I might have a small fist. But when it comes to fighting, I will put stones inside to enlarge it. Do not doubt my capabilities.

2. Alistair Wittet:

   Consumers are changing shopping habits. Instead of shopping in secondary locations they're shopping online but they're still valuing the super-prime flagship stores, that's the thinking behind the Inditex strategy - to close the secondary stores and enlarge and improve their flagship stores.

3. Utah Gov. Spencer Cox:

   The President's decision to enlarge Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments again is a tragic missed opportunity — it fails to provide certainty as well as the funding for law enforcement, research, and other protections which Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments need and which only Congressional action can offer.

4. 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.

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.