transitive. To enlarge, augment, increase.

transitive. To increase, add to, lengthen. Also absol. †neither to eke nor to pair (Scottish): neither to add to nor take from. Proverb, every (als…

transitive. To cause to become of great(er) number or quantity; to increase or augment by accumulation or repetition.

transitive. To augment, to cause to increase, to exaggerate.

To cause to wax or grow; to make greater in amount or degree; to augment, enlarge, extend, intensify.

To advance, in various senses. (Common in the 16th cent.)

To increase the size of (a material object); to add to, augment (a literary work, a person's wealth, the number or amount of anything). Formerly…

transitive. To make greater in number, size, or degree; to add to, to supplement; to increase, enlarge, extend.

transitive. To cause to grow; to increase.

transitive. To increase, multiply, and disperse widely (a person's progeny).

transitive. To amplify (something) (in various senses of amplify, v.). Usually in passive.

transitive. To make great or greater; to increase; reflexive to aggrandize oneself.

transitive. To raise, heighten, set up.

= increase, v. transitive.

causative. To cause to grow. To cause to increase, to enlarge. Obsolete. rare.

transitive. To enlarge, extend, or amplify (something). Usually in passive.

transitive. To succeed in bringing, conveying, or causing to come or go up; to raise from a lower place; (figurative) to increase.

transitive. To make greater in amount or degree; to increase, augment, enlarge; to intensify. Obsolete.

To enlarge, extend, increase in size, amount, or dignity; to amplify.

transitive. To increase.

transitive. To make (an amount) larger; to raise, increase. Obsolete.

To extend or increase (anything immaterial) in amount, importance, dignity, etc.

To increase the degree, intensity, or force of (a thing). transitive. To make keener or intensify (a sensation, a feeling, etc.).

transitive. To make greater, magnify.

transitive. To make greater in amount, degree, or intensity; to increase, add to. Also with out, up. (See also 6b.)

transitive. To make greater.

transitive. To make great or greater in size, extent, or amount; to increase, augment, enlarge, intensify, magnify.

transitive. To increase by accretion, add to, supplement. Obsolete.

transitive. To make (something) larger or more intense; to enlarge, increase, magnify. In later use esp.: to increase (power or influence).

transitive. To make greater; to cause to increase or develop.

transitive. To increase, augment.

transitive. To increase in magnitude or amount, to enlarge. Obsolete.

To make more powerful or intense. transitive. To increase by giving fresh force to; to intensify, make greater.

transitive. To exaggerate or overstate; = amplify, v. 3b.

transitive. To multiply; to make plural or multiform; to attribute plurality to.

transitive. To cause (a price, rate, quantity, etc.) to increase; to increase the amount or value of (something) Cf. to drive down.

transitive. To arouse enthusiasm for (a person, organization, cause, etc.); to promote or praise enthusiastically; (also) to give a boost to.

transitive. colloquial (originally U.S.). To raise, increase (esp. a price, tax, rent, etc.); to hike. Also: to boost (an economy).

(up-, prefix affix 3a).

transitive. figurative. To increase, ‘pile on’, ‘heap up’; also with up.

To increase or raise (prices, production, mechanical power, etc.). colloquial (originally U.S.).