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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. |
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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. |
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To set at large or set free. |
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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. |
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To speak or write at length; to be diffuse in speaking
or writing; to expatiate; to dilate. |
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To get more astern or parallel with the vessel's
course; to draw aft; -- said of the wind. |
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