enlarge

verb

Etymology: From Middle English enlargen, from Old French enlargier, enlargir. By surface analysis, en- + large.

1. To make (something) larger.

   “We'll need to enlarge our budget if we want to include the helicopter ride in our holiday.”

2. To grow larger.
3. To increase the capacity of; to expand; to give free scope or greater scope to; also, to dilate, as with joy, affection, etc.

   “Knowledge enlarges the mind.”

   “O ye Corinthians, our […] heart is enlarged.”

4. To speak or write at length upon or on (some subject); expand; elaborate

   “We are then told of the basilisk killing by staring, and of a mous running round a snake till it rushes into the jaws of death. After copying many such anilities, the author adds only, "but our readers will excuse our enlarging."”

   “I shall enlarge upon the Point.”

5. To release; to set at large.

   “Like a Lionesse lately enlarged.”

   “Finding no meanes how I might us enlarge, / But if that Dwarfe I could with me convay, / I lightly snatcht him up and with me bore away.”

6. To get more astern or parallel with the vessel's course; to draw aft; said of the wind.
7. To extend the time allowed for compliance with (an order or rule).

   “the court would not take farther time to adjourn and deliberate, where the term was near spent, unless the parties would consent to enlarge it”