{
    "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’."
}