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enlargingverbpresent participle of enlarge 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 accelerating, accumulating, appreciating, ballooning, booming, building up, burgeoning(also bourgeoning), climbing, escalating, expanding, gaining, increasing, mounting, multiplying, mushrooming, proliferating, rising, rolling up, snowballing, spreading, swelling, waxing jumping, rocketing, skyrocketing, surgingheightening, intensifying, redoublingblowing up, bulking, distending, inflating, puffing (up)crescendoing, cresting, peaking contracting, decreasing, diminishing, dwindling, lessening, receding, waning to make greater in size, amount, or numberwith a new member of the family on the way, maybe we should consider enlarging the house accelerating, adding (to), aggrandizing, amplifying, augmenting, boosting, building up, compounding, escalating, expanding, extending, hyping, increasing, multiplying, pumping up, raising, stoking, supersizing, swelling, upping booming, jumping, skyrocketing, spikingbumping (up), ratcheting (up)also racheting (up)blowing up, dilating, distending, inflatingdrawing out, elongating, fleshing (out), lengthening, prolonging, protracting, stretchingdeveloping, enhancing, heightening, intensifying, magnifyingcomplementing, supplementingbeefing (up), reinforcing(also reenforcing), strengtheningmaximizingaccumulating, amassing, collectingfollowing up, parlaying abating, decreasing, de-escalating, diminishing, downsizing, dwindling, lessening, lowering, minifying, reducing, subtracting (from) abbreviating, abridging, curtailing, shorteningcompressing, condensing, constricting, contractingcutting back, retrenching to set free (as from slavery or confinement)like a wild animal enlarged from a leghold trap, the freed prisoner raced about discharging, disenthralling(also disenthraling), emancipating, enfranchising, freeing, liberating, loosening, loosing, manumitting, releasing, springing, unbinding, uncaging, unchaining, unfettering bailing (out), delivering, paroling, ransoming, redeeming, rescuing, savingdisembarrassing, disencumbering, disengaging, disentangling, extricatingunshackling turning loose binding, confining, enchaining, fettering, restraining handcuffing, manacling, shackling, trammeling(or trammelling)committing, immuring, imprisoning, incarcerating, interning, jailing, locking (up)conquering, enslaving, subduing, subjugating |