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reenlarge en · VERB

Etymology

From re- + enlarge.

Meanings

  1. To enlarge again.
    • Chef David Frankel indicated that: “in the new menu I went down from 250–300 grams of pasta to 120, but people complained and I had to reenlarge some portions." 2017, Peter Naccarato, Zachary Nowak, Elgin K. Eckert, Representing Italy Through Food, →ISBN:
    • Marine centric diatoms decrease in size on repeated division and eventually become smaller and smaller on successive divisions unless they reenlarge by a process involving auxospore formation. 1974, Murray D. Dailey, Barbara Hill, A Summary of Knowledge of the Southern California Coastal Zone and Offshore Areas, pages 7.6-7.7:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
reenlarged Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
reenlarged Tense=Past lexicographic
reenlarges Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
reenlarging Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic