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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He has used the novel tack of publicly proclaiming his lack of independence to enlarge himself.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026
When the brain's waste removal system becomes less efficient, these spaces can enlarge and become visible on MRI scans.
From Science Daily • Jan. 3, 2026
The listening that democracy requires means “catching someone else’s words in flight” and trying to enlarge their meaning.
From Slate • Jan. 2, 2026
He was, for example, appalled at the force-feeding of ducks and geese to enlarge their livers to produce foie gras.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 7, 2025
Ged stood still a while, like one who has received great news, and must enlarge his spirit to receive it.
From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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