to make larger; increase in extent, bulk, or quantity; add to

They enlarged the house by adding an east wing.

to increase the capacity or scope of; expand

We've decided to enlarge the company.

to make (a photographic print) larger than the negative by projecting the negative's image through a lens onto photographic printing paper.

to grow larger; increase; expand.

to speak or write at large; expatiate

to enlarge upon a point.

verb

abridge , compress , condense , curtail , decrease , diminish , lessen , lower , reduce , shrink

verb

add to , aggrandize , amplify , augment , beef up * , blow up * , boost , broaden , build , bulk , develop , diffuse , dilate , distend , elaborate , elongate , embroider , exaggerate , expand , expatiate , extend , give details , grow , grow larger , heighten , inflate , jack up , jazz up , lengthen , magnify , make larger , mount , multiply , pad * , pyramid * , rise , slap on , snowball , spread , stretch , swell , upsurge , wax , widen , build up , burgeon , escalate , proliferate , run up , soar , labor , add , descant , enhance , ennoble , exacerbate , fatten , greaten , hypertrophy , increase , intumesce , launch out , protuberate , ream , tumefy