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Enlarge   /ɛnlˈɑrdʒ/  /ɪnlˈɑrdʒ/   Listen
verb
Enlarge  v. t.  (past & past part. enlarged; pres. part. enlarging)  
1.
To make larger; to increase in quantity or dimensions; to extend in limits; to magnify; as, the body is enlarged by nutrition; to enlarge one's house. "To enlarge their possessions of land."
2.
To increase the capacity of; to expand; to give free scope or greater scope to; also, to dilate, as with joy, affection, and the like; as, knowledge enlarges the mind. "O ye Corinthians, our... heart is enlarged."
3.
To set at large or set free. (Archaic) "It will enlarge us from all restraints."
Enlarging hammer, a hammer with a slightly rounded face of large diameter; used by gold beaters.
To enlarge an order or To enlarge a rule (Law), to extend the time for complying with it.
To enlarge one's self, to give free vent to speech; to spread out discourse. "They enlarged themselves on this subject."
To enlarge the heart, to make free, liberal, and charitable.
Synonyms: To increase; extend; expand; spread; amplify; augment; magnify. See Increase.



Enlarge  v. i.  
1.
To grow large or larger; to be further extended; to expand; as, a plant enlarges by growth; an estate enlarges by good management; a volume of air enlarges by rarefaction.
2.
To speak or write at length; to be diffuse in speaking or writing; to expatiate; to dilate. "To enlarge upon this theme."
3.
(Naut.) To get more astern or parallel with the vessel's course; to draw aft; said of the wind.






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"Enlarge" Quotes from Famous Books



... not printed until 1702, after mentioning the fact that Cotton Mather had published an account of the conduct of the Goodwin children, and briefly describing the manifestations and actions of the Salem girls, says: [p. 24] "I will not enlarge in the description of their cruel sufferings, because they were, in all things, afflicted as bad as John Goodwin's children at Boston, in the year 1689, as he, that will read Mr. Mather's book on Remarkable Providences, p. 3. &c., may read part of what ...
— Salem Witchcraft and Cotton Mather - A Reply • Charles W. Upham

... no lack of work. Perhaps there might be Mine-Inspectors too:—might there not be Furrowfield Inspectors withal, and ascertain for us how on seven and sixpence a week a human family does live! Interference has begun; it must continue, must extensively enlarge itself, deepen and sharpen itself. Such things cannot longer be idly lapped in darkness, and suffered to go on unseen: the Heavens do see them; the curse, not the blessing of the Heavens is on an Earth that refuses to ...
— Past and Present - Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. • Thomas Carlyle

... problems of lock, draw, drop, etc., we make quite a large hole in C where the screws b come. To explain, if the screws b b were tapped directly into C, as they are shown at Fig. 95, we could only turn the disk D on the screw b; but if we enlarge the screw hole in C to three or four times the natural diameter, and then place the nut e under C to receive the screw b, we can then set the disks D D' and pallets B B' in almost any relation we choose to the escape wheel, and clamp the pallets fast and ...
— Watch and Clock Escapements • Anonymous

... display of actions and surprises of the most moving and impressive sort; but beyond the opportunity it affords for saying startling and thought-provoking things—opportunities Mr. Shaw, for example, has worked to the utmost limit—I do not see that the drama does much to enlarge our sympathies and add to our stock of motive ideas. And regarded as a medium for startling and thought-provoking things, the stage seems to me an extremely clumsy and costly affair. One might just as well go about with a pencil writing up the thought-provoking phrase, whatever it is, ...
— An Englishman Looks at the World • H. G. Wells

... all the comforts we could to the poor about us; and every week we dropped a little overplus into a fairing-box, to buy the boat. If any accident of charity brought us an additional shilling, we did not enlarge our expense, but kept it for the boat. The more care we took, the more comfortable we felt, for we were the nearer the possession of our little boat. Our labor was lightened by looking forward to the ...
— Stories for the Young - Or, Cheap Repository Tracts: Entertaining, Moral, and Religious. Vol. VI. • Hannah More


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