enlarge
/ɪnˈlɑɹd͡ʒ/ verb B2- To make (something) larger. · We'll need to enlarge our budget if we want to include the helicopter ride in our holiday.
- To grow larger.
- To increase the capacity of; to expand; to give free scope or greater scope to; also, to dilate, as with joy, affection, etc. · Knowledge enlarges the mind.
- To speak or write at length upon or on (some subject); expand; elaborate
- To get more astern or parallel with the vessel's course; to draw aft; said of the wind.
- To extend the time allowed for compliance with (an order or rule).
He/she/it enlarges · Past enlarged · Past participle enlarged · -ing form enlarging
Verb forms
- Base form
- enlarge
- He/she/it
- enlarges
- Past
- enlarged
- Past participle
- enlarged
- -ing form
- enlarging
From the library
The tailor’s tab is on the neck—‘Neal, Outfitter, Vermissa, U.S.A.’ I have spent an instructive afternoon in the rector’s library, and have enlarged my knowledge by adding the fact that Vermissa is a flourishing little town at the head of one of the best known coal and iron valleys in the United States.
“I once thought,” continued Faria, “of removing these iron bars, and letting myself down from the window, which, as you see, is somewhat wider than yours, although I should have enlarged it still more preparatory to my flight; however, I discovered that I should merely have dropped into a sort of inner court, and I therefore renounced the project altogether as too full of risk and danger.
The man from the West, his egotism enlarged by success, was beginning to outline the history of his career.
But she had never felt so strongly as now the disadvantages which must attend the children of so unsuitable a marriage, nor ever been so fully aware of the evils arising from so ill-judged a direction of talents--talents which, rightly used, might at least have preserved the respectability of his daughters, even if incapable of enlarging the mind of his wife.
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