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Enlarged   /ɛnlˈɑrdʒd/  /ɪnlˈɑrdʒd/   Listen
verb
Enlarge  v. t.  (past & past part. enlarged; pres. part. enlarging)  
1.
To make larger; to increase in quantity or dimensions; to extend in limits; to magnify; as, the body is enlarged by nutrition; to enlarge one's house. "To enlarge their possessions of land."
2.
To increase the capacity of; to expand; to give free scope or greater scope to; also, to dilate, as with joy, affection, and the like; as, knowledge enlarges the mind. "O ye Corinthians, our... heart is enlarged."
3.
To set at large or set free. (Archaic) "It will enlarge us from all restraints."
Enlarging hammer, a hammer with a slightly rounded face of large diameter; used by gold beaters.
To enlarge an order or To enlarge a rule (Law), to extend the time for complying with it.
To enlarge one's self, to give free vent to speech; to spread out discourse. "They enlarged themselves on this subject."
To enlarge the heart, to make free, liberal, and charitable.
Synonyms: To increase; extend; expand; spread; amplify; augment; magnify. See Increase.


Enlarge  v. i.  
1.
To grow large or larger; to be further extended; to expand; as, a plant enlarges by growth; an estate enlarges by good management; a volume of air enlarges by rarefaction.
2.
To speak or write at length; to be diffuse in speaking or writing; to expatiate; to dilate. "To enlarge upon this theme."
3.
(Naut.) To get more astern or parallel with the vessel's course; to draw aft; said of the wind.


adjective
Enlarged  adj.  Made large or larger; extended; swollen.





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... first tractors had been made in the plant at Dearborn which is now used as an experimental station. That was not large enough to affect the economies of large-scale production and it could not well be enlarged because the design was to make the tractors at the River Rouge plant, and that, until this year, ...
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... Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven. But the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth."[555] This lesson, that the supremacy of Israel can be attained only through excellence in righteousness, is reiterated and enlarged upon in the Lord's teachings, as we ...
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... agreeable to me, and there was something in his character that I did not thoroughly understand; yet, since he is become Leonora's husband, I find my understanding much improved, and I dare say it will soon be so far enlarged, that ...
— Tales And Novels, Vol. 8 • Maria Edgeworth
... changed their shape year by year with the wind and rain, and Cricket had no definite idea of the exact locality of the spot where mamma and auntie had buried their money-bags, thirty years before. She enlarged the hole the children had begun, till it was quite an excavation, carrying on her game of "incubus" with the children all the time. At last she concluded to sit down and rest. She planted herself in the bottom of the hole, with her curly crop not visible above the top of it. She ...
— Cricket at the Seashore • Elizabeth Westyn Timlow
... considerably distended, especially the right auricle and ventricle, while the valvular structure seemed natural. The pericardium contained about 10 ounces of straw-coloured fluid. After examining the organ particularly, I could discover nothing abnormal, but the enlarged and softened state alluded to. The liver was large and highly congested with dark thick blood, but otherwise it was healthy. The gall-bladder was empty, and the spleen large and congested. The stomach was smallish and empty. The mucous membrane was ...
— An Investigation into the Nature of Black Phthisis • Archibald Makellar


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