Verb
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.
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.
To set at large or set free.
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.
To speak or write at length; to be diffuse in speaking or writing; to expatiate; to dilate.
To get more astern or parallel with the vessel's course; to draw aft; -- said of the wind.
Source: Webster's dictionaryIf a problem cannot be solved, enlarge it. Dwight D. Eisenhower
To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun. Robert Burton
If art does not enlarge men's sympathies, it does nothing morally. George Eliot
The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom. John Locke
We read advertisements... to discover and enlarge our desires. We are always ready - even eager - to discover, from the announcement of a new product, what we have all along wanted without really knowing it. Daniel J. Boorstin
In fact, all the additional knowledge gained by an irrationally constituted society may but enlarge and enhance the powers of death and destruction. Paul A. Baran