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enlarged is an adjective meaning "(of an organ or body part) excessively enlarged as a result of increased size in the constituent cells". It carries 4 recorded senses.
(of an organ or body part) excessively enlarged as a result of increased size in the constituent cells
“hypertrophied myocardial fibers”
larger than normal
“enlarged joints”
enlarged to an abnormal degree
“thick lenses exaggerated the size of her eyes”
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for enlarged come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.