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enlarge

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Word definitions for enlarge in dictionaries

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Enlarge \En*large"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Enlarged ; p. pr. & vb. n. Enlarging .] [OF. enlargier; pref. en- (L. in) + F. large wide. See Large .] To make larger; to increase in quantity or dimensions; to extend in limits; to magnify; as, the body is enlarged ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context transitive English) To make larger. 2 (context transitive English) To increase the capacity of; to expand; to give free scope or greater scope to; also, to dilate, as with joy, affection, etc. 3 (context intransitive English) To speak at ...

Usage examples of enlarge.

On examination, we found a very varicose or enlarged condition of the left spermatic veins, and gave it as our opinion that the seminal loss was wholly due to this abnormal condition and could only be cured by an operation that would remove the varicocele.

The Constitution does not authorize Congress to enlarge or abridge those rights.

It has been subsequently held many times that municipal corporations are mere instrumentalities of the State for the more convenient administration of local governments, whose powers may be enlarged, abridged, or entirely withdrawn at the pleasure of the legislature.

The enlarged flyby surveillance photograph hanging on the wall showed in grainy black and white the cabin and its grounds, including the wide, elevated back porch on which Glenn Abies could be seen standing, small but unmistakable, giving the helicopter the finger.

Justinian was enlarged by the splendid acquisition of Africa and Italy.

Platonic school were used as the badges of popular factions, and the distance which separated their respective tenets were enlarged or magnified by the acrimony of dispute.

Though usually in such cases the growth is of an unbalanced or localized sort, as in acromegaly, where the bones of the hands or jaw become abnormally enlarged.

But with the incidence of acromegaly, the extremities continue to become enlarged, the hands and feet, the bones and cutaneous tissues of the face.

The nation becomes an enlarged individual whose special purpose is that of human amelioration, and in whose life every individual should find some particular but essential function.

The cells represented in division B are amyloid concretions, found where there is an enlarged prostate gland.

There seems to be some sort of asymptotic phenomenon that takes over when we enlarge.

Spitzka and others demonstrate that in such cases other parts of the brain enlarge to compensate for the atrophic portion which is connected with the functionless nerves.

Almighty enable you to lend a fresh and unprecedented impetus to the onward march of the Faith, revive the spirit of its supporters, enlarge its limits, multiply its local institutions, consolidate its foundations, safeguard its rights, spread abroad its fame, and aid its followers to discharge befittingly their responsibilities, and concentrate on the attainment of the objectives of the Ten-Year Plan, on which the immediate destiny of the entire community depends.

To define a gene as a single cistron is good for some purposes, but for the purposes of evolutionary theory it needs to be enlarged.

I would give you would be this: write an answer to their letter, and tell them that you have no objection to the taking in of a new partner, but you think it would be proper to revise all the copartnery, especially as you have, considering the manner in which you have advanced the business, been of opinion, that your share should be considerably enlarged.