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How to pronounce enlarge in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms dilate, elaborate, expand, expatiate, exposit, expound, flesh out, lucubrate
Type of clear up, elucidate, clarify
Has types specialise, detail, exemplify, set forth, exposit, expound, particularize, illustrate, instance, particularise, specify, specialize
Derivation enlargement
Type Words
Synonyms blow up, magnify
Type of increase
Derivation enlargement, enlarger
Type Words
Type of grow
Has types amplify, magnify
Type Words
Type of increase
Has types deepen, expand, ream
Derivation enlargement


She enlarged the flower beds.

Examples of enlarge

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Together, the Wights would enlarge prints of their slides, mount and frame them.
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Carpenter bees may use old tunnels for their nests, which they sometimes enlarge.
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The park would grow to 10 acres and its frontage would enlarge on Stallings Road.
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On March 1st EU leaders will debate calls to enlarge their rescue fund by half.
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He decided to enlarge the figure of his daughter Rachel in this newest rendition.
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And for the third question, I looked at the picture you were trying to enlarge.
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This way one does not need to enlarge the map to see where the blue things are.
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You think about it, proof it, enlarge it and print it, then you get sick of it.
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The small negative size of 110 film makes it difficult to enlarge successfully.
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More examples
  • Make larger; "She enlarged the flower beds"
  • Blow up: make large; "blow up an image"
  • Become larger or bigger
  • Elaborate: 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"
  • To make larger; To speak at length upon or on (some subject); To release; to set at large
  • (ENLARGING) Extending or making more comprehensive; as an enlarging statute, which is one extending the common law.
  • (Enlarging) Cameras. - These cameras vary in form, according to the nature of the illumination, but ordinarily consist of a double or triple extension bellows camera, with a holder for the negative or transparency at one end, and for the sensitive plate or paper at the other, the lens being ...
  • Put off, or extend the time for doing any step in proceedings. (Compare with 'adjourn'.)
  • To increase the size of a digital photo or digital picture, for printing an enlargement.