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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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
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
Allison Febbo, general manager of Westlands Water District, said the plan to enlarge Shasta Dam “represents an important step toward advancing a long-overdue investment in water supply reliability.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 17, 2026
“You just need to practice,” said Hermione, who had approached them noiselessly from behind and had stood watching anxiously as Harry tried to enlarge and reduce the spider.
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
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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
Expansion microscopy, which marks its 10th anniversary this year, physically enlarges biological samples.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 2, 2025
"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
At times of famine, a single blepharisma will begin eating its neighbors; it then enlarges to an immense size and turns into a cannibalistic giant, straight out of any Norse fable.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
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He clutched a photo of his late wife that had been enlarged for the television cameras.
From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2026
The brokerage maintains the stock’s buy rating, but lowers the target price to 0.41 Singapore dollar from S$0.43 to reflect an enlarged share base following the company’s recent share placement.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
She suffered another major personal trauma in 2023 when her younger brother Jansen died, reportedly due to an enlarged heart.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
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
Imagine a particle so small that you can barely see it even though a microscope has enlarged it for you 300 times.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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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
"I think given where we are, we do need to be thinking and talking about extending it or enlarging it," the Labour peer told BBC Radio 4's Today programme on Friday.
From BBC ● Apr. 3, 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
But most asked few questions, being content to play what the dancing-master demanded; and most, like me, found pleasure in the old tunes and their enlarging.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
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