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enlarge
verb as in make or grow bigger; increase
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Example Sentences
Earlier this year, Charles was first hospitalized to treat an enlarged prostate.
The fish scientists were particularly shocked by its enlarged head - something they had never seen before.
First, the field is enlarged to include top-notch artists in subsequent generations, whose work reflects an ongoing Photorealist legacy.
Biden has designated six monuments and expanded four, including enlarging the San Gabriel Mountains National Monument near Los Angeles by nearly a third earlier this year.
“We’re entering a time when the pie is not going to enlarge as rapidly … a time when there is going to be heightened group conflict.”
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When To Use
What are other ways to say enlarge?
Enlarge means to make greater in size, extent, or range: to enlarge a building, a business, one’s conceptions. To increase means to make greater, as in quantity, extent, or degree: to increase someone’s salary; to increase the velocity; to increase the (degree of) concentration. Augment, a more formal word, means to make greater, especially by addition from the outside: to augment one’s income (by doing extra work).
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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