Definition of Enlarge

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Enlarge

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 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.

To set at large or set free.

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.

To speak or write at length; to be diffuse in speaking or writing; to expatiate; to dilate.

To get more astern or parallel with the vessel's course; to draw aft; -- said of the wind.

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Enlarge Quotations

Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.
Socrates

If a problem cannot be solved, enlarge it.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.
John Locke

There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all.
Jackie Kennedy

We are beginning a new era in our government. I cannot too strongly urge the necessity of a rigid economy and an inflexible determination not to enlarge the income beyond the real necessities of the government.
Andrew Jackson

The truth is not wonderful enough to suit the newspapers; so they enlarge upon it, and invent ridiculous embellishments.
Anne Sullivan

We read advertisements... to discover and enlarge our desires. We are always ready - even eager - to discover, from the announcement of a new product, what we have all along wanted without really knowing it.
Daniel J. Boorstin

Meeting people unlike oneself does not enlarge one's outlook; it only confirms one's idea that one is unique.
Elizabeth Bowen

O my brethren, my heart is enlarge towards you. I trust I feel something of that hidden, but powerful presence of Christ, whilst I am preaching to you.
George Whitefield

As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.
Jean Paul

Enlarge Translations

enlarge in Dutch is uitbouwen, vergroten, uitbreiden
enlarge in French is agrandir, agrandissez, agrandissons, agrandissent
enlarge in Italian is ampliare, ingrandire
enlarge in Latin is relaxo, augeo
enlarge in Spanish is acgrandar, agrandar, ampliar

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