enlarging

Verb

enlarge (third-person singular simple present enlarges, present participle enlarging, simple past and past participle enlarged)

1. (transitive) To make (something) larger.
   • We'll need to enlarge our budget if we want to include the helicopter ride in our holiday.

   Synonyms:

   embiggen, enlargen, largen, greaten, add, amplify, augment, dilate, eke / eke out, elevate

2. (intransitive) To grow larger.

   Synonyms:

   expand, grow, accelerate, accrue, aggrandize, augment, embiggen, enhance, greaten, heighten

3. (transitive) To increase the capacity of; to expand; to give free scope or greater scope to; also, to dilate, as with joy, affection, etc.
   • Knowledge enlarges the mind.

   Synonyms:

   expand

4. (intransitive) To speak or write at length upon or on (some subject); expand; elaborate
   • We are then told of the basilisk killing by staring, and of a mous running round a snake till it rushes into the jaws of death. After copying many such anilities, the author adds only, "but our readers will excuse our enlarging."1819, The Edinburgh Monthly Review, volume 1, page 707

   Synonyms:

   dilate, expatiate, expound

5. (archaic) To release; to set at large.
   • Like a Lionesse lately enlarged.a. 1587, Philippe Sidnei [i.e., Philip Sidney], “(please specify the folio)”, in [Fulke Greville; Matthew Gwinne; John Florio], editors, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia [The New Arcadia], London...

   Synonyms:

   free, liberate, set free

6. To get more astern or parallel with the vessel's course; to draw aft; said of the wind.

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