Enlargement Synonyms and Antonyms

ĕn-lärjmənt
The act of increasing in dimensions, scope, or inclusiveness
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. expansion
  2. extension
  3. spread
Antonyms:
  1. contraction
An enlarged photograph
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. blowup
  2. enlarged print
  3. view
  4. magnification

Words Related to Enlargement

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Enlargement Sentence Examples

  • Some organs are subject to enlargement from deposition within them of a foreign substance (amyloid, fat, &c.).

  • It is the immediate cause of the phenomena of circumnutation, each cell of the circumnutating organ showing a rhythmic enlargement and decrease of its dimensions, due to the admission of more and less water into its interior.

  • There is, however, only one large lake in the state - Flathead (or Selish) Lake, which may be regarded as an enlargement of Flathead river; it is 27 m.

  • The growth of an organic being is simply a process of enlargement, as a particle of dry gelatine may be swelled up by the intussusception of water; its death is a shrinkage, such as the swelled jelly might undergo on desiccation.

  • In chronic cases the eventual effects are anaemia, melanosis, enlargement of the spleen and liver, and general cachexia.

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