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enlarge
verb as in make or grow bigger; increase
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"Being part of Nato brings us on an equal footing with all the other allies. It enlarges the possibilities for Finnish companies in the defence sector and beyond."
After a heart scan, Joey said clinicians diagnosed him with steroid-induced dilated cardiomyopathy - a condition that causes the heart to enlarge and weaken, making it difficult to pump blood.
And it used to be a really tiny picture, and they got it enlarged, and so the quality is awful.
When an 84-year-old man in Hong Kong went to hospital with an enlarged prostate, doctors were startled to see that his skin — and even the whites of his eyes — had turned silver-grey.
The companies announced the agreement in July, saying it would create an "enlarged international group" that could expand into "multiple drinks sectors".
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When To Use
What are other ways to say enlarge?
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).
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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