en·large

(ĕn-lärj′)

v. en·larged, en·larg·ing, en·larg·es

v.tr.

1. To make larger in size.

2. To make larger in scope or effect; expand: enlarge our understanding of comets. See Synonyms at increase.

v.intr.

1. To become larger; grow or swell.

2. To speak or write at greater length or in greater detail; elaborate: enlarged upon the plan.

[Middle English enlargen, from Old French enlargier : en-, causative pref.; see en-¹ + large, large; see large.]

en·larg′er n.

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enlarged

(ɪnˈlɑːdʒd)

adj

1. made larger in size

2. (Medicine) med having become unhealthily large through disease. See also enlarged prostate

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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Adj.	1.	enlarged - (of an organ or body part) excessively enlarged as a result of increased size in the constituent cells; "hypertrophied myocardial fibers" hypertrophied
	2.	enlarged - as of a photograph; made larger; "the enlarged photograph revealed many details" blown-up big, large - above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent; "a large city"; "set out for the big city"; "a large sum"; "a big (or large) barn"; "a large family"; "big businesses"; "a big expenditure"; "a large number of newspapers"; "a big group of scientists"; "large areas of the world"
	3.	enlarged - larger than normal; "enlarged joints" unhealthy - not in or exhibiting good health in body or mind; "unhealthy ulcers"
	4.	enlarged - enlarged to an abnormal degree; "thick lenses exaggerated the size of her eyes" magnified, exaggerated increased - made greater in size or amount or degree

Translations

allargato ingrandito

enlarged

[ɪnˈlɑːdʒd] ADJ [edition] → aumentado (Med) [organ, gland] → hipertrofiado

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

enlarged

[ɪnˈlɑː^rdʒd] adj

[edition] → augmenté(e)

(MEDICINE) [organ, gland] → anormalement gros(se), hypertrophié(e) enlarged prostateenlarged prostate n → hypertrophie f de la prostate

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

enlarged

adj → vergrößert; organ, pore also, community → erweitert; an enlarged force → verstärkte Truppen pl; an enlarged print (Phot) → eine Vergrößerung; enlarged edition → erweiterte Ausgabe

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

enlarged

[ɪnˈlɑːdʒd] adj (edition) → ampliato/a (Med) (organ, gland) → ingrossato/a; (pores) → dilatato/a

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

enlarged

pp. dilatado, agrandado, aumentado;

___ liver → hígado agrandado;

___ prostate → próstata aumentada.

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Where were to be lodged all the gentry of the neighborhood, who would gather in two or three hours after the news had enlarged the circle of its report, like the increasing circumference produced by a stone thrown into a placid lake?

The street was narrowed by a quarter by it, but then the house was enlarged by a half; and was not that a sufficient compensation?

This is the way in which the pointed-gable house got a sign; and this is how the hostelry of the Medici, making a fortune, was found to be enlarged by a quarter, as we have described.

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I have enlarged them, both in Number, and Weight; So that they are indeed a New Worke.

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Now, however, we begin to mend, our party is enlarged by Mrs.

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Wollaston suspects, their wings not at all reduced, but even enlarged. This is quite compatible with the action of natural selection.

In the same manner as in Madeira the wings of some of the insects have been enlarged, and the wings of others have been reduced by natural selection aided by use and disuse, so in the case of the cave-rat natural selection seems to have struggled with the loss of light and to have increased the size of the eyes; whereas with all the other inhabitants of the caves, disuse by itself seems to have done its work.

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The house was overrun with ivy, its chimney being enlarged by the boughs of the parasite to the aspect of a ruined tower.

The momentary pleasure of success got the better of her; her eyes enlarged, and she involuntarily smiled in his face.

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We have said that the light produced by the spark and the match did not last more than two seconds; but during these two seconds this is what it illumined: in the first place, the giant, enlarged in the darkness; then, at ten paces off, a heap of bleeding bodies, crushed, mutilated, in the midst of which some still heaved in the last agony, lifting the mass as a last respiration inflating the sides of some old monster dying in the night.

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If very little came to me in those days from books, on the other hand my acquaintance with the drama vastly enlarged itself.

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The news came as the LSE announced a new-look boardroom for the enlarged group, which sees five Borsa Italiana directors join the company and the departure of two LSE non-executives.

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