enlarge

Other forms of enlarge

past tense

enlarged·

present participle

enlarging·

third person

enlarges·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about enlarge

What does enlarge mean?

enlarge means "make larger". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in enlarge?

enlarge has 2 syllables: en-large. The stress falls on "large". In IPA it is /ˌɛnˈlɑɹdʒ/.

What is another word for enlarge?

Close synonyms include blow up, magnify, elaborate, lucubrate, expatiate. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is enlarge a common word?

enlarge is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with enlarge?

1 word rhymes with enlarge. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.