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enlarge

verb add to, aggrandize, amplificare, annex, augere, augment, broaden, build, build up, develop, dilatare, dilate, distend, elaborate, enhance, exaggerate, expatiate, extend, fatten, fill out, grow, inflate, intensify, lengthen, magnify, make greater, make larger, multiply, progress, protract, raise, spread, stretch, supplement, swell, widen
Associated concepts: materially alter, repair

TO ENLARGE. To extend; as, to enlarge a rule to plead, is to extend the time during which a defendant may plead. To enlarge, means also to set at liberty; as, the prisoner was enlarged on giving bail.

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2 Remove the strike plate, place it in a vise and enlarge the hole with a file.

Fix a door latch that won't catch

The charitable sector should be encouraged to enlarge its role in advocacy and education.

Advocacy and education. (Comments)

This seems a reasonable assumption based on one tradition practiced by the rubber industry, design and build a transfer mold with small diameter sprues and enlarge them, if necessary, to achieve a shorter fill time.

Designing for plunger-type transfer molds

In one well, the XR 1200 reamer, in combination with the Geo-Pilot and FullDrift[R] bit-matched system, enabled Halliburton to drill ahead and enlarge a 700-meter section of Cretaceous chalk with hard stringers from 12-1/4 inches to 17-1/2 inches in less than 72 hours.

Halliburton's Security DBS Drill Bits Unit Introduces Advanced Reamer Technology with Expanded Hole Opening Capability

Hearts enlarge during human development, in athletic training, and in some diseases.

Shortcut to big heart: pythons build cardiac muscle in record time

The patient was treated with a 2-week course of radiotherapy, but the lesion continued to enlarge.

A case of renal cell carcinoma metastatic to the nose and tongue. (Original Article)

Researchers aren't certain why a man's prostate starts to enlarge as he ages, but the process is as common as gray hair.