enlarge

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verb

1. make larger (Freq. 7)
- She enlarged the flower beds
• Derivationally related forms:
enlargement
• Hypernyms:
increase
• Hyponyms:
expand, ream, deepen
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Something ----s something
- They enlarge their earnings this year
2. make large (Freq. 2)
- blow up an image
• Syn:
blow up, magnify
• Ant:
reduce (for: blow up)
• Derivationally related forms:
magnitude (for: magnify), magnification (for: magnify), magnifier (for: magnify), enlargement, enlarger, blowup (for: blow up)
• Topics:
photography, picture taking
• Hypernyms:
increase
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
3. become larger or bigger (Freq. 2)
• Hypernyms:
grow
• Hyponyms:
magnify, amplify
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s
- Their earnings enlarge this year
4. add details, as to an account or idea;
clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing (Freq. 1)
- She elaborated on the main ideas in her dissertation
• Syn:
elaborate, lucubrate, expatiate, exposit, flesh out,
expand, expound, dilate
• Ant:
contract (for: expand)
• Derivationally related forms:
dilation (for: dilate), expository (for: expound), exponent (for: expound), expounding (for: expound), expansion (for: expand), enlargement, exposition (for: exposit), expatiation (for: expatiate), lucubration (for: lucubrate), elaboration (for: elaborate)
• Hypernyms:
clarify, clear up, elucidate
• Hyponyms:
detail, set forth, expound, exposit, exemplify,
exemplify, instance, specify, particularize, particularise,
specialize, specialise
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s
- Somebody ----s something
- Something ----s something
- Somebody ----s PP
- They enlarge that there was a traffic accident

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  elaborate, lucubrate, expatiate, exposit, flesh out, expand, expound, dilate, blow up, magnify
• Từ trái nghĩa / Antonyms:
  abridge, foreshorten, abbreviate, shorten, cut, contract, reduce, scale down