To make larger; add to; increase in extent, bulk, or quantity; extend; augment: as, to enlarge a building or a business.To increase the capacity or scope of; expand; make more comprehensive.To increase in appearance; magnify to the eye.To set at large or at liberty; give freedom or scope to; release from limitation, confinement, or pressure.To state at large; expatiate upon: in this sense now followed by on or upon. See II., 2.To awaken strong religious feeling in; “enlarge the heart” of; hence, to move to utterance; cause or permit to expatiate: often reflexive.In old law, to give further time to; extend, postpone, or continue: as, to enlarge a rule or an order.To grow large or larger; increase; dilate; expand: as, a plant enlarges by growth; an estate enlarges by good management.To speak at large; be diffuse in speaking or writing; expatiate; amplify: with on or upon.To exaggerate.In photography, to make enlargements; practise solar printing. See enlargement, 8.n. Freedom; liberty; enlargement.To cause (a horse) to spread his legs wider apart, so as to prevent him from interfering.