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(transitive) To make great; to enlarge; to increase.
v
(intransitive) To make heavy; to aggravate.
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(intransitive) To become better; improve.
v
(idiomatic, transitive) to strengthen or reinforce; to add substance to
v
(nonstandard, rare) To make or become bigger.
v
(nonstandard, informal, transitive) To enlarge or make bigger
v
(transitive) To make broad or broader.
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(idiomatic) To increase someone's interests, skills, or experiences beyond their current range.
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(physics, transitive) To adjust a theory so as to render finite or periodic (a theoretical space-time dimension).
v
To change the form of (something), usually thus making it disordered or irregular; to give (something) an abnormal or unusual shape.
v
To reduce the size of an image etc
v
(rare, transitive) To increase in size something that has previously been miniaturized.
v
(transitive) To remove or distort the shape of; to deform.
n
(obsolete) The act of making clear; clarification.
n
One who, or that which, distends.
v
(transitive) to develop in detail or complexity
v
(transitive) To make elastic or stretchy.
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(transitive) To make better; improve.
v
(nonstandard, now humorous, transitive) To enlarge; to make bigger.
v
(transitive) To render (someone) bolder or more courageous.
v
(transitive) To instill grace into.
n
One who copies a piece of writing in large, attractive characters.
v
(transitive) To fortify against adversity.
v
(transitive) To make more lively, cheerful or interesting.
v
(transitive) To enhance.
v
(transitive) To enrich; to make richer.
v
(obsolete, transitive) Render strong or stronger; strengthen.
adj
(obsolete, astrology, of a planet) Exercising its highest influence.
v
To increase in quantity by weakening or adulterating additions.
n
The process of making something (more) extensive.
v
(intransitive) To improve after decline.
v
(transitive) To make muscles more toned through physical exercise.
v
Alternative spelling of foreshorten [To render the image of an object such that it appears to be receding in space as it is perceived visually.]
v
(wine) To add spirits to wine to increase the alcohol content.
n
The targetted exposure of a technical or natural implement or organ to stimuli or other straining it is supposed to bear.
v
To become more effective.
v
(transitive) To make giant or gigantic; to increase to huge proportions.
v
(transitive) To cause (something) to become more glad.
v
(transitive) To make great; magnify; enlarge; increase.
v
(transitive, computing) To modify (a website or other system) to make it resistant to malicious attacks.
v
(transitive) To add health to; make whole or healthy; strengthen
v
To advance, increase, augment, make larger, more intense, stronger etc.
v
Alternative spelling of enlive [(archaic) To enliven.]
v
To enliven, brighten up, make more colourful or exciting; excite
v
(transitive) To improve a person's mood by making them more energetic
v
Obsolete form of magnify. [(transitive) To praise, glorify (someone or something, especially God).]
v
(transitive) To magnify the greatness of (someone or something); to exalt.
v
(intransitive) To grow better; to advance to a better state; to become improved.
v
(transitive, often figuratively) To become too big in size or too mature in age or outlook to continue to want, need, use, experience, or accept some object, practice, condition, belief, etc.
v
(transitive) To surpass in reproducing; to outbreed.
n
The plotting of data on top of a previous plot
n
(electronics) Adjustment of a parameter to exceed a normal limit
v
(transitive) To make larger, or too large.
v
(transitive, intransitive) To make or become too broad.
n
The process of plenishing; a stocking or filling up.
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(transitive) To enhance.
v
(transitive, of animals or plants) To cause to continue or multiply by generation, or successive production.
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(transitive) To modify (a structure) to make it capable of withstanding an earthquake.
v
To expand or enlarge without adding any new portion of matter to.
v
Obsolete form of reinforce. [(transitive) To strengthen, especially by addition or augmentation.]
v
Alternative form of rightsize [(business, euphemistic) To downsize.]
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(transitive) To make shorter; to abbreviate.
v
(UK, Cambridge University, obsolete) To order food or drink from the buttery; hence, to enter a score, as upon the buttery book.
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(intransitive) To grow strong or stronger.
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(transitive) To exalt to a superior degree; to exalt above others.
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(obsolete, nonce word) To sow over something previously sown.
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(transitive) To increase the size of something, especially to unusual proportions.
v
(transitive) To cause to become bigger.
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(transitive) To grow underneath.
v
(rare, transitive, intransitive) To make or become vast
adj
(of an image) Having been zoomed out, or having been made smaller so that a larger portion (of the image) can be seen at once.
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