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.
"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
I howl, and my family follows me through the enlarged hole and out onto the rock path.
From Literature
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
The clogged pathways are known as "enlarged perivascular spaces," and the findings suggest they could serve as an early warning signal for Alzheimer's, the most common form of dementia.
From Science Daily
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
