enlarge

Meaning of enlarge

verb
  1. make or become larger or more extensive.
    they have renovated and enlarged the four-storey building

Middle English (formerly also as inlarge ): from Old French enlarger, from en- (expressing a change of state) + large ‘large’.

Information about enlarge

  • It is a verb.
  • The plural form of enlarge is: enlarges.
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Hyphenation of enlarge

en-large

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
  • enlarge is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

enlarge synonyms

Meaning blow up:

magnify

Meaning elaborate:

elaborate, lucubrate, expatiate, exposit, expand, expound, dilate

Meaning (of a living thing) undergo natural development by increasing in size and changing physically:

grow

Meaning cause to cover a wider area; make larger:

extend

Meaning increase the volume of (sound), especially using an amplifier:

amplify

Meaning make (something) greater by adding to it; increase:

augment

Meaning add an extra element or amount to:

supplement

Meaning become or make more intense:

intensify

Meaning obtain from (a number) another which contains the first number a specified number of times:

multiply

Meaning (of something soft or elastic) be made or be capable of being made longer or wider without tearing or breaking:

stretch

Meaning (especially of a part of the body) become larger or rounder in size, typically as a result of an accumulation of fluid:

swell

Meaning swell or cause to swell by pressure from inside:

distend

Meaning make or become swollen with fluid or gas:

bloat

Meaning swell or protrude to an incongruous extent:

bulge

Meaning throw snowballs at:

snowball

Meaning increase, spread, or develop rapidly:

mushroom

Meaning make or become fat or fatter:

fatten

Meaning swell out in a spherical shape:

balloon

Meaning make or become wider:

widen

Meaning expand to encompass more people or things:

broaden

Meaning make or become longer:

lengthen

Meaning make (something) longer, especially unusually so in relation to its width:

elongate

Meaning make or become deep or deeper:

deepen

Meaning make or become thick or thicker:

thicken

Meaning enlarge (a ship, especially a tanker) by inserting a new middle section between the bow and stern:

jumboize

Meaning cover or treat (something) with wax or a similar substance, typically to polish or protect it:

wax

Meaning become swollen:

tumefy

Meaning swell up:

intumesce

enlarge antonyms

Meaning diminish gradually in size, amount, or strength:

dwindle

Meaning make smaller or less in amount, degree, or size:

reduce

Translation of enlarge

Anagrams of enlarge

general, gleaner, Renagel

Words that rhyme with enlarge

Labarge, barge, bumbarge, embarge, imbarge, rumbarge, Podarge, Lafarge, afterdischarge, charge, countercharge, discharge, encharge, hypercharge, intercharge, litharge, mischarge, multicharge, outcharge, overcharge, overdischarge, precharge, predischarge, recharge, redischarge, reovercharge, supercharge, surcharge, turbocharge, turbosupercharge, uncharge, undercharge, unsurcharge, alarge, large, overlarge, preenlarge, reenlarge, superlarge, unlarge, Marge, lithomarge, marge, parge, sparge, Kearsarge, Sarge, sarge, litarge, targe

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