enlarge
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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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Years ago he shrank his own office to enlarge a lounge for a singer-songwriter who needed space to camp out.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
Paintings of seated figures almost dissolving into disembodied but anatomically correct drawing, made between about 1941 and 1946, enlarge this story.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
Their stretched proportions reminded the scientists of Luffy's rubber body, which allows the fictional character to freely extend and enlarge his limbs.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 4, 2026
The very history he so powerfully invokes to explain the 14th Amendment’s origins often becomes, in his jurisprudence, a reason to limit rather than enlarge its reach.
From Slate ● Jul. 2, 2026
It's time to think bigger, to escalate the pamphlet campaign, to enlarge his circle so that more Germans learn the truth.
From "The Boy Who Dared" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
The perspective suddenly enlarges as William launches an invasion fleet.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026
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
Expansion microscopy, which marks its 10th anniversary this year, physically enlarges biological samples.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 2, 2025
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
But he still believed, so we read in an enlarged reproduction from his first furniture catalog, that it was “economically practical to have a small enjoyable output in pleasant country surroundings.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 2026
But US officials said they were making a fresh effort in an enlarged format, following visits to Moscow and Kyiv by last month by Witkoff, Trump's business friend-turned-roving envoy, and the president's son-in-law Kushner.
From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026
If an atomic nucleus were enlarged to the size of a football stadium, the experiment's highest resolution would be fine enough to distinguish features only a few yards wide on the field.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 12, 2026
He clutched a photo of his late wife that had been enlarged for the television cameras.
From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2026
It made a satisfying thunk and the photo with the young Dr. Achebe enlarged.
From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste
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
Her work included enlarging and remodelling the medieval manor at Hardwick, now known as Hardwick Old Hall.
From BBC ● Apr. 26, 2026
Updating the calculations for gold’s recent epic run, investment consultants Nicholas Conant and Mark Wood of Callan gave the cube some benefit of the doubt by enlarging it with all of the bullion since mined.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 27, 2026
In any case, fielding them would mean replacing the existing weapons, not enlarging the arsenal’s size.
From Slate ● Oct. 30, 2025
Bigwig and some of the other rabbits had already begun enlarging their burrows in preparation for Holly’s return.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
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