Synonyms for enlarge
ɛnˈlɑrdʒen·large

English Synonyms and Antonyms(3.25 / 4 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. enlarge

   To add is to increase by adjoining or uniting: in distinction from multiply, which is to increase by repeating. To augment a thing is to increase it by any means, but this word is seldom used directly of material objects; we do not augment a house, a farm, a nation, etc. We may enlarge a house, a farm, or an empire, extend influence or dominion, augment riches, power or influence, attach or annex a building to one that it adjoins or papers to the document they refer to, annex a clause or a codicil, affix a seal or a signature, annex a territory, attach a condition to a promise. A speaker may amplify a discourse by a fuller treatment throughout than was originally planned, or he may append or subjoin certain remarks without change of what has gone before. We cast up or sum up an account, though add up and make up are now more usual expressions.

   Synonyms:
   add, adjoin, affix, amplify, annex, append, attach, augment, cast up, extend, increase, join on, make up, subjoin, sum up

   Antonyms:
   abstract, deduct, diminish, dissever, lessen, reduce, remove, subtract, withdraw

   Preposition:
   Other items are to be added to the account.

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. enlarge

   Synonyms:
   amplify, expand, augment, broaden, swell, stretch out, extend, stretch, dilate, increase

   Antonyms:
   narrow, lessen, contract, restrict, diminish, curtail, reduce

Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. enlargeverb

   make larger

   "She enlarged the flower beds"

   Synonyms:
   exposit, elaborate, expatiate, dilate, flesh out, expound, expand, lucubrate, blow up, magnify

2. blow up, enlarge, magnifyverb

   make large

   "blow up an image"

   Synonyms:
   go ballistic, lucubrate, expatiate, puff out, exposit, detonate, have kittens, flip one's wig, embroider, puff up, expound, flesh out, puff, hit the roof, explode, throw a fit, combust, flip one's lid, magnify, expand, dilate, amplify, pad, embellish, lard, fly off the handle, set off, lose one's temper, overstate, blow a fuse, hit the ceiling, blow up, exaggerate, aggrandise, have a fit, dramatise, elaborate, inflate, aggrandize, overdraw, hyperbolize, hyperbolise, dramatize, blow one's stack

3. enlargeverb

   become larger or bigger

   Synonyms:
   exposit, elaborate, expatiate, dilate, flesh out, expound, expand, lucubrate, blow up, magnify

4. elaborate, lucubrate, expatiate, exposit, enlarge, flesh out, expand, expound, dilateverb

   add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing

   "She elaborated on the main ideas in her dissertation"

   Synonyms:
   work out, refine, fat, expound, fatten, exposit, dilate, fill out, spread out, extend, amplify, blow up, rarify, lucubrate, set forth, fatten up, thrive, elaborate, magnify, plump, expatiate, inflate, expand, fatten out, flesh out, complicate, plump out, boom, flourish, distend, round

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1. • Grow
   • Increase
   • Photography

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1. make bigger

   Submitted by anonymous on December 18, 2019  

Dictionary of English Synonymes(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. enlargeverb

   Synonyms:
   increase, augment, extend, expand, magnify, amplify, make larger, make greater

2. enlargeverb

   Synonyms:
   expatiate, dilate, descant, speak at length, launch out

3. enlargeverb

   Synonyms:
   increase, swell, grow, extend, expand, grow larger

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. enlargeverb

   Synonyms:
   magnify, amplify, augment, expand, develop, increase, extend, swell, dilate, descant, launch out, expatiate, ennoble, broaden

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1. List of paraphrases for "enlarge":

   expand, broaden, extend, widen, enlargement, expanding, magnify, expansion, increase

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How to use enlarge in a sentence?

1. John W. Hanley:

   Cultivate your curiosity. Keep it sharp and always working. Consider curiosity your life preserver, your willingness to try something new. Second, enlarge your enthusiasm to include the pursuit to excellence, following every task through to completion. Third, make the law of averages work for you. By budgeting your time more carefully than most people you can make more time available. Does the combination of curiosity, enthusiasm, and the law of averages guarantee success Indeed it does not ... Success in the final analysis always involves luck or the element of chance. Louis Pasteur grasped this well when he said that chance favors the prepared mind.

2. Seymour Kagan:

   The president or someone in the VA should change the rule to reflect the pandemic and enlarge the vaccination program to any veteran, this would have the added benefit of increasing the distribution of the vaccine at a faster rate rather than going through the states -- it would also reduce the demand on the states of those people who are veterans who would get the shot directly through the VA clinic.

3. William Shakespeare:

   Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, Till by broad spreading it disperses to naught.

4. Photographer Daniel Kariko:

   That's what first attracted me to this, with the naked eye, you see the insect as brown bug. But when you enlarge it, you really see the wonderful colors that come from the process.

5. National Police spokesman Prawut Thavonsiri:

   These mix of chemicals you can easily obtain anywhere legally, but when you combine them, they become a chemical that is quick to catch fire and can be developed to become a detonator, this formula can also be used to enlarge the radius of the bomb. It could be used for both of the bombings. But when the bomb detonates, this element (if used in the bomb) would disappear immediately because it's an amplifier.