| 单词 | enlarge |
| 释义 | enlarge (once / 286 pages) v When you enlarge something, you make it bigger. If you build a huge addition on the side of your house, you enlarge it. You can enlarge a sand castle by dumping another bucket of sand on it, or enlarge your hairdo by curling and teasing it. When a photographer enlarges a photograph, she blows it up, or prints a much larger copy of it, and you can also enlarge an idea, or someone's understanding of it, by clarifying or explaining it. The Old French root of enlarge is enlargier, "to widen, increase, or make larger." WORD FAMILYenlarge: enlarged, enlargement, enlarger, enlarges, enlarging+/enlargement: enlargements/enlarger: enlargers/large: enlarge, largely, largeness, larger, larges, largest, largish, overlarge/largeness: largenesses/larger: largerly USAGE EXAMPLESAt various points of time, doctors diagnosed Stephanie with an enlarged heart, a blood clot and severe liver and kidney damage. Washington Times(Jan 01, 2017) “We welcome an investigation, but the government should be very careful not to enlarge or politicize it.” Washington Post(Dec 23, 2016) Court records show that expert witnesses for the defense contended that Towns was in ill health from an enlarged heart and high blood pressure. Reuters(Dec 16, 2016) 1v make larger She enlarged the flower beds Hypo|Hyper expand make bigger or wider in size, volume, or quantity reamenlarge with a reamer deepenmake deeper developexpand in the form of a series blow up, inflatefill with gas or air increase make bigger or more 2v make large Syn|Ant|Hyper blow up, magnify reduce, scale down make smaller increase make bigger or more 3v become larger or bigger Hypo|Hyper amplify, magnify increase in size, volume or significance grow become larger, greater, or bigger; expand or gain 4v add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper dilate, elaborate, expand, expatiate, exposit, expound, flesh out, lucubrate abbreviate, abridge, contract, cut, foreshorten, reduce, shorten reduce in scope while retaining essential elements cut, edit, edit outcut and assemble the components of detail provide details for exposit, expound, set forthstate exemplify, illustrate, instanceclarify by giving an example of particularise, particularize, specialise, specialize, specifybe specific about depict, describe, drawgive a description of premiseset forth beforehand, often as an explanation spell outmake explicit; specify in detail clarify, clear up, elucidate make clear and (more) comprehensible |
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