enlarge
Usage
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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).Example Sentences
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Measles can cause the spleen to enlarge, making it more likely to rupture.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
The team also discovered that EXO1 works alongside another protein called MRE11 to enlarge DNA gaps and generate dangerous DNA breaks.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 20, 2026
Nothing has been done in the meantime to enlarge our shipbuilding capacity, or entice a larger or more skilled workforce.
From Slate ● Apr. 20, 2026
Allison Febbo, general manager of Westlands Water District, said the plan to enlarge Shasta Dam “represents an important step toward advancing a long-overdue investment in water supply reliability.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 17, 2026
Now I double-click on the first photos and enlarge them to full screen.
From "Legend" by Marie Lu
The perspective suddenly enlarges as William launches an invasion fleet.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026
In his office, the commanding officer enlarges an image showing a swarm of speedboats carrying out such an attack.
From Barron's ● May 1, 2026
Far from distorting democracy, this diversity of substantial support often enlarges the range of ideas in public debate.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 24, 2026
Expansion microscopy, which marks its 10th anniversary this year, physically enlarges biological samples.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 2, 2025
At times of famine, a single blepharisma will begin eating its neighbors; it then enlarges to an immense size and turns into a cannibalistic giant, straight out of any Norse fable.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
But US officials said they were making a fresh effort in an enlarged format, following visits to Moscow and Kyiv by last month by Witkoff, Trump's business friend-turned-roving envoy, and the president's son-in-law Kushner.
From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026
If an atomic nucleus were enlarged to the size of a football stadium, the experiment's highest resolution would be fine enough to distinguish features only a few yards wide on the field.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 12, 2026
He clutched a photo of his late wife that had been enlarged for the television cameras.
From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2026
Artwork by his son Naviyd is featured on the walls, while an enlarged drawing of a tattoo that Usher has on his chin has been turned into a decorative ceiling mural.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026
Even the vast sextants and quadrants built by Tycho Brahe were simply enlarged sighting devices.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
Constructing an accurate, full-scale replica involves far more than enlarging a drawing or arranging generic bones into a dramatic pose.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 5, 2026
Instead, ports are considering extending the life of old equipment by updating technology systems or enlarging cranes so they can load and unload larger containerships.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 5, 2025
In any case, fielding them would mean replacing the existing weapons, not enlarging the arsenal’s size.
From Slate ● Oct. 30, 2025
All cells there have the inmate’s name and photo posted outside, but staffers had to take the additional step of enlarging Girardi’s photo.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2025
In such classrooms, before students who were so anxious and uncertain of their social advancement, the enlarging lessons of the humanities seemed an irrelevance.
From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez
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