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re-enlarge

re-enlarge is the alternative form of reenlarge.

Meaning of reenlarge

Verb

reenlarge (third-person singular simple present reenlarges, present participle reenlarging, simple past and past participle reenlarged)

  1. To enlarge again.
    • Marine centric diatoms decrease in size on repeated division and eventually become smaller and smaller on successive divisions unless they reenlarge by a process involving auxospore formation.1974, Murray D. Dailey, Barbara Hill, A Summary of Knowledge of the Southern California Coastal Zone and Offshore Areas, pages 7.6-7.7

Forms of re-enlarge

third-person singular presentre-enlarges
present participlere-enlarging
past participlere-enlarged
pastre-enlarged

Questions about re-enlarge

What is re-enlarge the alternative form of?
Re-enlarge is the alternative form of reenlarge.

Words near re-enlarge in the dictionary

  1. re-engineers
  2. re-engines
  3. re-engining
  4. re-enginings
  5. re-engrave
  6. re-enlarge
  7. re-enlarged
  8. re-enlarges
  9. re-enlarging
  10. re-enlist
  11. re-enlisted

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Adapted from Wiktionary: re-enlarge (page history and authors); reenlarge (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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