Enlarge
verb — past tense: enlarged ; past participle: enlarged ; present participle: enlarging ;
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- (TRANSITIVE) (to make or become larger, to reproduce on a larger scale) ពង្រីក, ធ្វើអោយធំឡើង, បង្កើន, កើនឡើង
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- (បច្ចេកទេស) ពង្រីក ពង្វាត
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- (INTRANSITIVE) (to become larger, to increase, to discuss at greater length with on or upon) ឡើងធំ
Example: The balloon became greatly enlarged as gas was pumped into it.
ENGLISH MEANING
verb — past tense: enlarged ; past participle: enlarged ; present participle: enlarging ;
- 1.
- (TRANSITIVE) To make larger; to increase in quantity or dimensions; to extend in limits; to magnify; as, the body is enlarged by nutrition; to enlarge one's house.
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- (TRANSITIVE) To increase the capacity of; to expand; to give free scope or greater scope to; also, to dilate, as with joy, affection, and the like; as, knowledge enlarges the mind.
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- (TRANSITIVE) To set at large or set free.
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- (INTRANSITIVE) To grow large or larger; to be further extended; to expand; as, a plant enlarges by growth; an estate enlarges by good management; a volume of air enlarges by rarefaction.
- 5.
- (INTRANSITIVE) To speak or write at length; to be diffuse in speaking or writing; to expatiate; to dilate.
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- (INTRANSITIVE) To get more astern or parallel with the vessel's course; to draw aft; -- said of the wind.
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- amplify, augment, broaden, dilate, distend, expand, increase, magnify, spread, swell, widen
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- abridge, contract, diminish, restrict, shrink