Synonyms of enlarging

enlarging

verb

present participle of enlarge

1

as in increasing

to become greater in extent, volume, amount, or number

as the number of people with cell phones enlarges, more transmission towers will have to be built

Synonyms & Similar Words

• increasing
• expanding
• rising
• swelling
• accelerating
• multiplying
• climbing
• intensifying
• waxing
• accumulating
• spreading
• proliferating
• ballooning
• mushrooming
• mounting
• gaining
• escalating
• snowballing
• burgeoning
• booming
• rolling up
• appreciating
• surging
• jumping
• bourgeoning
• heightening
• building up
• skyrocketing
• distending
• inflating
• rocketing
• redoubling
• peaking
• bulking
• puffing (up)
• cresting
• blowing up
• crescendoing

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• decreasing
• diminishing
• contracting
• lessening
• receding
• waning
• dwindling

2

as in expanding

to make greater in size, amount, or number

with a new member of the family on the way, maybe we should consider enlarging the house

Synonyms & Similar Words

• increasing
• expanding
• augmenting
• accelerating
• boosting
• multiplying
• extending
• raising
• enhancing
• reinforcing
• amplifying
• swelling
• intensifying
• strengthening
• maximizing
• escalating
• stoking
• adding (to)
• upping
• compounding
• aggrandizing
• supersizing
• pumping up
• building up
• supplementing
• hyping
• developing
• lengthening
• inflating
• heightening
• stretching
• dilating
• distending
• elongating
• jumping
• prolonging
• skyrocketing
• complementing
• spiking
• booming
• magnifying
• reenforcing
• bumping (up)
• drawing out
• protracting
• accumulating
• ratcheting (up)
• collecting
• amassing
• blowing up
• fleshing (out)
• racheting (up)
• beefing (up)
• following up
• parlaying

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• reducing
• decreasing
• diminishing
• lowering
• lessening
• downsizing
• dwindling
• subtracting (from)
• curtailing
• shortening
• abating
• abridging
• compressing
• abbreviating
• contracting
• minifying
• condensing
• constricting
• de-escalating
• retrenching
• cutting back

3

as in freeing

to set free (as from slavery or confinement)

like a wild animal enlarged from a leghold trap, the freed prisoner raced about

Synonyms & Similar Words

• freeing
• releasing
• rescuing
• saving
• liberating
• loosening
• enfranchising
• emancipating
• loosing
• springing
• discharging
• unfettering
• manumitting
• turning loose
• unchaining
• uncaging
• unbinding
• disenthralling
• disenthraling
• paroling
• ransoming
• redeeming
• extricating
• bailing (out)
• disengaging
• disentangling
• delivering
• disencumbering
• disembarrassing
• unshackling

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• confining
• restraining
• binding
• fettering
• imprisoning
• handcuffing
• shackling
• committing
• enchaining
• locking (up)
• incarcerating
• jailing
• subjugating
• conquering
• subduing
• enslaving
• interning
• trammeling
• trammelling
• manacling
• immuring