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{
"term": "enlarge",
"partOfSpeech": "verb",
"verbForms": {
"presentSimple": {
"iYouWeThey": "enlarge",
"heSheIt": "enlarges"
},
"pastSimple": "enlarged",
"pastParticiple": "enlarged",
"ingForm": "enlarging"
},
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "to make something bigger; to become bigger",
"sensetop": "enlarge (something)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "There are plans to enlarge the recreation area."
},
{
"text": "Reading will enlarge your vocabulary."
},
{
"text": "The castle was enlarged considerably in the fifteenth century."
},
{
"text": "The gallery is seeking to enlarge its holdings of Danish art."
},
{
"text": "The little blisters enlarge and eventually burst to form ulcers."
}
],
"collocations": {
"adverb": ["considerably", "dramatically", "greatly"],
"verb + enlarge": ["seek to"],
"preposition": ["to"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "to make a bigger copy of a photograph or document",
"sensetop": "have something enlargedbe enlarged",
"examples": [
{
"text": "We're going to have this picture enlarged.",
"contextForm": "have something enlarged"
},
{
"text": "The images were enlarged to the size of a wall of a room.",
"contextForm": "be enlarged"
}
],
"collocations": {
"adverb": ["considerably", "dramatically", "greatly"],
"verb + enlarge": ["seek to"],
"preposition": ["to"]
}
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ɪnˈlɑːdʒ/",
"audio": "en/enlarge/enlarge__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ɪnˈlɑːdʒɪz/",
"audio": "en/enlarge/enlarges__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ɪnˈlɑːdʒd/",
"audio": "en/enlarge/enlarged__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ɪnˈlɑːdʒɪŋ/",
"audio": "en/enlarge/enlarging__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ɪnˈlɑːrdʒ/",
"audio": "en/enlarge/enlarge__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ɪnˈlɑːrdʒɪz/",
"audio": "en/enlarge/enlarges__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ɪnˈlɑːrdʒd/",
"audio": "en/enlarge/enlarged__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ɪnˈlɑːrdʒɪŋ/",
"audio": "en/enlarge/enlarging__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "Middle English (formerly also as inlarge): from Old French enlarger, from en- (expressing a change of state) + large ‘large’."
}