Dictionary Entry
enlarge
enlarge is a 7-letter English word with 10 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 11 · 10 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
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.
- 2transitive verb
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.
- 3transitive verb
To set at large or set free.
- 4intransitive verb
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.
- 5intransitive verb
To speak or write at length; to be diffuse in speaking or writing; to expatiate; to dilate.
- 6intransitive verb
To get more astern or parallel with the vessel's course; to draw aft; -- said of the wind.
- 7verb
make larger
"She enlarged the flower beds"
- 8verb
become larger or bigger
- 9verb
make large
"blow up an image"
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- 10verb
add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing
"She elaborated on the main ideas in her dissertation"
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