Antonyms 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.

   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.

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1. enlarge

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

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

Matched Categories

1. • Grow
   • Increase
   • Photography

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:0.0 / 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

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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. 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. Sofiane Ben Tounes:

   We have been waiting for the formation of a permanent five year government to see if the necessary laws are put forward, including the ones for investment that would allow us to enlarge our presence in Tunisia, all the ingredients are now here to succeed.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. 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.

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