enlarge
Usage
What are other ways to say enlarge?
Enlarge means to make greater in size, extent, or range: to enlarge a building, a business, one's conceptions. To increase means to make greater, as in quantity, extent, or degree: to increase someone's salary; to increase the velocity; to increase the (degree of) concentration. Augment, a more formal word, means to make greater, especially by addition from the outside: to augment one's income (by doing extra work).Example Sentences
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Even at a moment when his career seemed to be contracting, Ellington used a new technology to enlarge his art—and, in doing so, helped chart a broader future for American musical expression.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 16, 2026
"Over time, more and more areas with an older epigenetic profile develop in the tissue. Through the natural process of crypt division, these regions continuously enlarge and can continue to grow over many years."
From Science Daily • Jan. 10, 2026
Section 10.3 of the Federal Reserve Act gives the Board of Governors sole control over its facilities and authorizes it to acquire, maintain, enlarge, or remodel buildings as it sees fit.
From Barron's • Jan. 5, 2026
He was, for example, appalled at the force-feeding of ducks and geese to enlarge their livers to produce foie gras.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 7, 2025
He sneaked forward a few yards and saw the shape at the top of the rock change and enlarge.
From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
