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enlarge
verb as in make or grow bigger; increase
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Example Sentences
Biden has designated six monuments and expanded four, including enlarging the San Gabriel Mountains National Monument near Los Angeles by nearly a third earlier this year.
“We’re entering a time when the pie is not going to enlarge as rapidly … a time when there is going to be heightened group conflict.”
As part of Roberts’ plan to rebel against the uni-party, he called on the incoming administration to fully embrace and enlarge the military-industrial complex.
Insight into art we thought we knew is enlarged.
As a performance piece for Timur, it further enlarges the transformational promise that Julia Bullock and Davóne Tines demonstrated in their recent staged recitals.
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When To Use
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).
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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