Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: enlarge
IPA transcription: [,ɛnl'ɑɹdʒ]
verb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: enlarge
    Meaning: make larger; "She enlarged the flower beds"
  • Synonyms: blow_up, enlarge, magnify
    Meaning: make large; "blow up an image"
  • Synonyms: enlarge
    Meaning: become larger or bigger
  • Synonyms: elaborate, lucubrate, expatiate, exposit, enlarge, flesh_out, expand, expound, dilate
    Meaning: add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing; "She elaborated on the main ideas in her dissertation"
Usage examples
  • I shall not enlarge upon
  • I will enlarge no further
  • After we have acquired a confidence in human testimony, books and conversation enlarge much more the sphere of one man's experience and thought than those of another.
  • "And, after all, it will not cost me more to build these cottages, and make thirty families more comfortable and more self-respecting, than it would to enlarge Cross Hall, as Mr. Chalmers advises me strongly to do--by building a new wing and adding a conservatory in the place of your modest little greenhouse.
  • To fully describe the importance of this event it would be necessary to enlarge upon the character and tendency of the Mahomedan religion at a length my limits forbid, and I must here therefore content myself with noting that, great as was the moral and mental revolution this conversion occasioned, it was by no means commensurate with that which followed the introduction of Islam into other countries.