enlarge

1. (transitive) To make (something) larger.Examples: "We'll need to enlarge our budget if we want to include the helicopter ride in our holiday."transitive

2. (intransitive) To grow larger.intransitive

3. (transitive) To increase the capacity of; to expand; to give free scope or greater scope to; also, to dilate, as with joy, affection, etc.Examples: "Knowledge enlarges the mind."; "O ye Corinthians, our […] heart is enlarged."transitive

4. (intransitive) To speak or write at length upon or on (some subject); expand; elaborateExamples: "We are then told of the basilisk killing by staring, and of a mous running round a snake till it rushes into the jaws of death. After copying many such anilities, the author adds only, "but our readers will excuse our enlarging.""; "I shall enlarge upon the Point."; "He began to enlarge on the nature of the ground."Synonyms: dilate, expatiateintransitive

5. (archaic) To release; to set at large.Examples: "Like a Lionesse lately enlarged."; "Finding no meanes how I might us enlarge, / But if that Dwarfe I could with me convay, / I lightly snatcht him up and with me bore away."; "It will enlarge us from all restraints."archaic

6. (nautical) To get more astern or parallel with the vessel's course; to draw aft; said of the wind.