verb
- Make larger.
- usage: "She enlarged the flower beds"
- synonyms: enlarge
- Make large.
- usage: "blow up an image"
- Become larger or bigger.
- synonyms: enlarge
- Add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing.
- usage: "She elaborated on the main ideas in her dissertation"
adjective
- Of an organ or body part. ( excessively enlarged as a result of increased size in the constituent cells)
- usage: "hypertrophied myocardial fibers"
- synonyms: hypertrophied
- As of a photograph; made larger.
- usage: "the enlarged photograph revealed many details"
- synonyms: blown-up
- Larger than normal.
- usage: "enlarged joints"
- Enlarged to an abnormal degree.
- usage: "thick lenses exaggerated the size of her eyes"
- synonyms: exaggerated, magnified
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