enlargement

enlarge +‎ -ment

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈlɑːd͡ʒ.mənt/

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• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈlɑɹd͡ʒ.mənt/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈlaːd͡ʒ.mənt/

enlargement (countable and uncountable, plural enlargements)

1. An act or instance of making something larger.

   Rick was ashamed about the size of his penis, so he had a penis enlargement.

2. (figuratively) A making more obvious or serious; exacerbation.
   • 1874, Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd, 2005 Barnes & Noble Classics publication of 1912 Wessex edition, p.337

     Bathsheba underwent the enlargement of her husband's absence from hours to days with a slight feeling of surprise, and a slight feeling of relief; yet neither sensation rose at any time far above the level commonly designated as indifference.

3. An image, particularly a photograph, that has been enlarged.
4. (obsolete) Freedom from confinement; liberty.
   • c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:

     Go, tenderness of years; take this key, give enlargement to the swain, bring him festinately hither.

5. Diffuseness of speech or writing; a speaking at length.
   • 1897, Peter Joseph Cooke, Forensic Eloquence, page 40:

     Briefly, a discourse generally consists in some prefatory remarks which pave the way as it were for the enlargement upon which a speaker usually enters when he speaks to any purpose.