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upsurged
[v. uhp-surj; n. uhp-surj] 
| Main Entry: |
enlarge
[en-lahrj]
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| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make or grow bigger; increase |
| Synonyms: | add to, aggrandize, amplify, augment, beef up, blow up, boost, broaden, build, bulk, develop, diffuse, dilate, distend, elaborate, elongate, embroider, exaggerate, expand, expatiate, extend, give details, grow, grow larger, heighten, inflate, jack up, jazz up, lengthen, magnify, make larger, mount, multiply, pad, pyramid, rise, slap on, snowball, spread, stretch, swell, upsurge, wax, widen |
| Antonyms: | abridge, compress, condense, curtail, decrease, diminish, lessen, lower, reduce, shrink |
| Main Entry: | mount |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | increase, grow |
| Synonyms: | accumulate, aggravate, augment, build, deepen, enhance, enlarge, escalate, expand, heighten, intensate, intensify, multiply, pile up, redouble, rise, rouse, swell, upsurge, wax |
| Antonyms: | decline, decrease, drop, fall, slump, subside |
| Main Entry: | rise |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | increase, grow |
| Synonyms: | accelerate, add to, advance, aggravate, arise, ascend, augment, billow, build, bulge, climb, deepen, distend, double, enhance, enlarge, expand, go through the roof, go up, heighten, improve, inflate, intensate, intensify, levitate, lift, magnify, mount, move up, multiply, perk up, pick up, pile up, raise, redouble, rouse, soar, speed up, spread, stack up, swell, take off, upsurge, wax |
| Notes: | to raise is 'to bring something up'; to rise is 'to get up' |
| Antonyms: | decline, decrease, lessen, lower, recede |
| Main Entry: | wax |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | become large, fuller |
| Synonyms: | augment, become, build, come, develop, dilate, enlarge, expand, fill out, get bigger, get to, grow, grow full, heighten, increase, magnify, mount, multiply, rise, run, swell, turn, upsurge |
| Antonyms: | shrink |
| Main Entry: | snowball |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | increase |
| Synonyms: | advance, aggrandize, aggravate, amplify, annex, augment, boost, broaden, build, build up, burgeon, deepen, develop, dilate, distend, double, enhance, enlarge, escalate, exaggerate, expand, extend, further, grow, heighten, inflate, intensify, lengthen, magnify, mark up, mount, multiply, pad, progress, proliferate, prolong, protract, pullulate, raise, redouble, reinforce, rise, run up, sharpen, slap on, soar, spread, step up, strengthen, supplement, swarm, swell*, tack on, teem, thicken, triple, upsurge, wax, widen |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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