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enlargeverb to become greater in extent, volume, amount, or numberas the number of people with cell phones enlarges, more transmission towers will have to be built accelerate, accumulate, appreciate, balloon, boom, build up, burgeon(also bourgeon), climb, escalate, expand, gain, increase, mount, multiply, mushroom, proliferate, rise, roll up, snowball, spread, swell, wax jump, rocket, skyrocket, surgeheighten, intensify, redoubleblow up, bulk, distend, inflate, puff (up)crescendo, crest, peak contract, decrease, diminish, dwindle, lessen, recede, wane to make greater in size, amount, or numberwith a new member of the family on the way, maybe we should consider enlarging the house accelerate, add (to), aggrandize, amplify, augment, boost, build up, compound, escalate, expand, extend, hype, increase, multiply, pump up, raise, stoke, supersize, swell, up boom, jump, skyrocket, spikebump (up), ratchet (up)also rachet (up)blow up, dilate, distend, inflatedraw out, elongate, flesh (out), lengthen, prolong, protract, stretchdevelop, enhance, heighten, intensify, magnifycomplement, supplementbeef (up), reinforce(also reenforce), strengthenmaximizeaccumulate, amass, collectfollow up, parlay abate, decrease, de-escalate, diminish, downsize, dwindle, lessen, lower, minify, reduce, subtract (from) abbreviate, abridge, curtail, shortencompress, condense, constrict, contractcut back, retrench to set free (as from slavery or confinement)like a wild animal enlarged from a leghold trap, the freed prisoner raced about discharge, disenthrall(also disenthral), emancipate, enfranchise, free, liberate, loose, loosen, manumit, release, spring, unbind, uncage, unchain, unfetter bail (out), deliver, parole, ransom, redeem, rescue, savedisembarrass, disencumber, disengage, disentangle, extricateunshackle turn loose bind, confine, enchain, fetter, restrain handcuff, manacle, shackle, trammelcommit, immure, imprison, incarcerate, intern, jail, lock (up)conquer, enslave, subdue, subjugate increase, enlarge, augment, multiply mean to make or become greater.increase used intransitively implies progressive growth in size, amount, or intensityhis waistline increased with age ; used transitively it may imply simple not necessarily progressive addition.increased her landholdings enlarge implies expansion or extension that makes greater in size or capacity.enlarged the kitchen augment implies addition to what is already well grown or well developed.the inheritance augmented his fortune multiply implies increase in number by natural generation or by indefinite repetition of a process.with each attempt the problems multiplied in the 14th century |