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.
Definitions
- transitive 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.
- transitive 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.
- transitive verb. To set at large or set free.
- intransitive 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.
- intransitive verb. To speak or write at length; to be diffuse in speaking or writing; to expatiate; to dilate.
- intransitive verb. To get more astern or parallel with the vessel's course; to draw aft; -- said of the wind.
- verb. make larger
"She enlarged the flower beds"
- verb. become larger or bigger
- verb. make large
"blow up an image"
- verb. 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"
Synonyms
magnify, dilate, elaborate, expand, expatiate, exposit, expound, lucubrate
Anagrams
Other playable words that use exactly the letters in enlarge:
Common word forms
enlarged, enlarger, enlarges, enlarging, enlargeable, enlargement
Words from these letters
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