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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But it can’t enlarge the pie: Each baseball season still has 2,430 regular season chances to win.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
The team also discovered that EXO1 works alongside another protein called MRE11 to enlarge DNA gaps and generate dangerous DNA breaks.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 20, 2026
Adenomyosis, is a condition often compared to endometriosis and occurs when where endometrial-like tissue grows into the muscular wall of the uterus, causing it to thicken and enlarge.
From BBC ● Apr. 23, 2026
Nothing has been done in the meantime to enlarge our shipbuilding capacity, or entice a larger or more skilled workforce.
From Slate ● Apr. 20, 2026
With their help she will then enlarge the nest and develop the colony.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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In his office, the commanding officer enlarges an image showing a swarm of speedboats carrying out such an attack.
From Barron's ● May 1, 2026
Far from distorting democracy, this diversity of substantial support often enlarges the range of ideas in public debate.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 24, 2026
"Being part of Nato brings us on an equal footing with all the other allies. It enlarges the possibilities for Finnish companies in the defence sector and beyond."
From BBC ● Mar. 5, 2025
As a performance piece for Timur, it further enlarges the transformational promise that Julia Bullock and Davóne Tines demonstrated in their recent staged recitals.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2024
The cell enlarges, begins making new DNA at a great rate, and turns into what is termed, appropriately, a blast.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
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The issues were discussed during an enlarged meeting of the ruling party's central military commission on Thursday, Pyongyang's official Korean Central News Agency said.
From Barron's ● Jul. 10, 2026
Under its proposal, Genesis shareholders would own roughly 60% of the enlarged company, with Vault investors holding the remainder.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
Patients with enlarged arteries were more than four times more likely to have experienced a lacunar stroke.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 3, 2026
Finishes were changed, an enlarged primary suite was completed, an additional guest suite was added, and the guesthouse was completely remodeled, listing agent Greer previously explained.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 29, 2026
She put her hands on either side of his enlarged face and kissed his tremendous nose.
From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill
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If true, that would mean aging fat tissue could continue growing not just by enlarging existing cells, but by constantly adding new ones.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 27, 2026
But if your elastic wrapping paper has a pattern on it, stretching it this way will distort the pattern, enlarging some parts and not others.
From Slate ● Jan. 21, 2026
A “salon” of multiple smaller works introduced each section, enlarging on Mr. Whitney’s shift from gatherings of blunt, sometimes layered, rounded forms to the abutments of rectangles that have preoccupied him since the 1990s.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 25, 2025
"Assistants work for their deputies, enlarging their ideas," Le Pen said.
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2024
As they drove back toward Ravenel, the sky was beginning to loosen up in the east, fingers of pink and mauve light touched the rim of the earth, enlarging imperceptibly with each moment passed.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
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