enlarge
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- Rhymes: -ɑː(r)dʒ
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enlarge (third-person singular simple present enlarges, present participle enlarging, simple past and past participle enlarged)
- (transitive) To make larger.
- (intransitive) To speak at length upon or on (some subject)
- 1664 Samuel Butler, Hudibras 2.2.68:
- I shall enlarge upon the Point.
- 1664 Samuel Butler, Hudibras 2.2.68:
- (archaic) To release; to set at large.
- 1580 Philip Sidney, Arcadia 329:
- Like a Lionesse lately enlarged.
- 1580 Philip Sidney, Arcadia 329:
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make larger
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[edit] References
- Oxford English Dictionary, Second Edition, 1989