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heighten
English
Etymology
From Middle English heightenen, hyghtenen, equivalent to height +? -en (verbal suffix).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?ha?t?n/
- Rhymes: -a?t?n
Verb
heighten (third-person singular simple present heightens, present participle heightening, simple past and past participle heightened)
- To make high; to raise higher; to elevate.
- To advance, increase, augment, make larger, more intense, stronger etc.
- “That’s heightened by the impact of climate change,” she added.
Translations
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enlarge
English
Etymology
From Middle English enlargen, from Old French enlargier, enlargir.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?n?l??d??/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?n?l??d??/
- Rhymes: -??(?)d?
Verb
enlarge (third-person singular simple present enlarges, present participle enlarging, simple past and past participle enlarged)
(Can we add an example for this sense?)
- (transitive) To make (something) larger.
- (intransitive) To grow larger.
- (transitive) To increase the capacity of; to expand; to give free scope or greater scope to; also, to dilate, as with joy, affection, etc.
- O ye Corinthians, our […] heart is enlarged.
- (intransitive) To speak or write at length upon or on (some subject); expand; elaborate
- 1664, Samuel Butler, Hudibras 2.2.68:
- I shall enlarge upon the Point.
- 1664, Samuel Butler, Hudibras 2.2.68:
- (archaic) To release; to set at large.
- 1580, Philip Sidney, Arcadia 329:
- Like a Lionesse lately enlarged.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.8:
- 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.
- a. 1677, Isaac Barrow, Of Contentment (sermon)
- It will enlarge us from all restraints.
- 1599, William Shakespeare, Henry V, Act II Scene II:
- Uncle of Exeter, enlarge the man committed yesterday, that rail'd against our person. We consider it was excess of wine that set him on.
- 1580, Philip Sidney, Arcadia 329:
- (nautical) To get more astern or parallel with the vessel's course; to draw aft; said of the wind.
- (law) To extend the time allowed for compliance with (an order or rule).
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Abbott to this entry?)
Synonyms
- (make larger, expand): embiggen, enlargen, largen, greaten
- (speak or write at length): dilate, expatiate
Related terms
- magnify
- supersize
Translations
References
- John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors (1989) , “enlarge”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ?ISBN
Anagrams
- General, general, gleaner, reangle
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