Word Meaning

enlarge definition and meaning

v. t. 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.
v. t. 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.
v. t. To set at large or set free.
v. i. 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.
v. i. To speak or write at length; to be diffuse in speaking or writing; to expatiate; to dilate.
v. i. To get more astern or parallel with the vessel's course; to draw aft; -- said of the wind.

Crossword clues for enlarge

- Blow up
- Broaden
- Dilate
- Expand
- Expand on leg near broken
- Grow
- Magnify
- Magnify changes in general
- Magnify problems in general
- Make bigger
- Make greater
- Make more prominent angler move to rear of lake
- Swell or expand