enlarge
English
Etymology
From Old French enlarger.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ɪnˈlɑːdʒ/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɑː(r)dʒ
Verb
enlarge (third-person singular simple present enlarges, present participle enlarging, simple past and past participle enlarged)
- (transitive) To make larger.
- (intransitive) To grow larger.
- (transitive) 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.
- Bible, 2 Corinthians vi. 11
- O ye Corinthians, our […] heart is enlarged.
- (intransitive) To speak or write at length upon or on (some subject)
- 1664, Samuel Butler, Hudibras 2.2.68:
- I shall enlarge upon the Point.
- 1664, Samuel Butler, Hudibras 2.2.68:
- (archaic) To release; to set at large.
- 1580, Philip Sidney, Arcadia 329:
- Like a Lionesse lately enlarged.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.8:
- Finding no meanes how I might us enlarge, / But if that Dwarfe I could with me convay, / I lightly snatcht him up and with me bore away.
- Barrow
- It will enlarge us from all restraints.
- 1599, William Shakespeare, Henry V, Act II Scene II:
- Uncle of Exeter, enlarge the man committed yesterday, that rail'd against our person. We consider it was excess of wine that set him on.
- 1580, Philip Sidney, Arcadia 329:
- (nautical) To get more astern or parallel with the vessel's course; to draw aft; said of the wind.
- (law) To extend the time allowed for compliance with (an order or rule).
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Synonyms
Translations
make larger
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References
- “enlarge” in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989, →ISBN.
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