English words for 'exaggerate or make bigger'
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verb
- exaggerate or make bigger
- increase the volume of
- to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth
- increase in size, volume or significance
- (transitive) To render larger, more extended, or more intense.
- (transitive) To increase the amplitude of something, especially of an electric current.
- (transitive, rhetorical) To enlarge by addition or commenting; to treat copiously by adding particulars, illustrations, etc.; to expand.
- (translation studies) To add content that is not present in the source text to the target text, usually to improve the fluency of the translation.
verb
- exaggerate or make bigger
- to swell or cause to enlarge
- make large
- fill with gas or air
- cause to burst with a violent release of energy
- get very angry and fly into a rage
- burst and release energy as through a violent chemical or physical reaction
- add details to
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see blow, up.
- (transitive) To inflate or fill with air, either by literally blowing or by using a pump.
- (transitive, also figuratively) To cause (something or someone) to explode, or to destroy (something) or maim or kill (someone) by means of an explosion.
- (intransitive, cycling) To succumb to oxygen debt and lose the ability to maintain pace in a race.
- (intransitive, also figuratively) To explode or be destroyed by explosion.
- (of a hangout) To overwhelm (a place) with traffic or volume by revealing its existence to others.
- (transitive) To enlarge or zoom in on.
- (intransitive, mathematics, said of a function) To increase without bound as a function argument or parameter approaches a certain value; to tend toward infinity; to approach infinity as a limit.
- (intransitive, slang) To become much more fat or rotund in a short space of time.
- (of a cell phone, pager, or similar) To receive a large number of calls, texts, or notifications, to the point of being rendered temporarily unusable or exasperating the recipient.
- (intransitive, slang) To suddenly get very angry, to lose one's temper.
- (transitive, figuratively) To represent something as being more important or serious than it actually is; to inflate; to exaggerate.
- (of a cell phone, pager, or similar) To bombard with a large number of calls, texts, or notifications, to the point of rendering temporarily unusable or exasperating the recipient.
- (intransitive, slang, of a device, machine, system, or establishment) To be overwhelmed by unexpectedly high demand, usage, activity, traffic volume, etc.
- (slang, colloquial) To cause a malodorous smell by flatulation, defecation, etc.
- (of a hangout) To be overwhelmed with traffic or volume.
- (intransitive) To fail disastrously.
- (transitive, slang, of a device, machine, system, or establishment) To overwhelm through unexpectedly high demand, activity, usage, traffic volume, etc.
- (intransitive, of a storm) To begin; to gather; to form.
- (slang, intransitive) To become popular very quickly.
- (sports) To blow the whistle.
verb
- exaggerate or make bigger
- make bigger or wider in size, volume, or quantity
- become larger in size or volume or quantity
- grow vigorously
- extend in one or more directions
- expand the influence of
- add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing
- (transitive) To express (something) at length and/or in detail.
- (transitive) To change (something) from a smaller form or size to a larger one; to spread out or lay open.
- (transitive, computing) In a hierarchical list (such as a directory tree or table of contents), to show the subentries of (an entry).
- (intransitive) To increase in extent, number, volume or scope.
- (transitive, algebra) To rewrite (an expression) as a longer, yet equivalent, sum of terms.
- (transitive, arithmetic) To multiply both the numerator and the denominator of a fraction by the same (non-zero) number (which yields a fraction of equal value).
- (transitive) To increase the extent, number, volume or scope of (something).
- (intransitive) To feel generous or optimistic.
- (intransitive) To speak or write at length or in detail.
- (intransitive, algebra, of an expression) To become, by rewriting, a longer, yet equivalent, sum of terms.
- (intransitive) To change or grow from smaller to larger in form, number, or size.
verb
- exaggerate or make bigger
- become inflated
- cause prices to rise by increasing the available currency or credit
- increase the amount or availability of, creating a rise in value
- fill with gas or air
- (figurative, transitive) To represent something as being more important, better, or worse than it actually is; to exaggerate.
- (transitive) To enlarge an object by pushing air (or a gas) into it; to raise or expand abnormally
- (transitive, computing) To decompress (data) that was previously deflated.
- (figurative) To swell; to puff up.
- (intransitive) To enlarge by filling with air (or a gas).
verb
- To exaggerate; to enlarge upon.
- (transitive) To provoke (a person) to anger or rage; to exasperate; to irritate; to incense; to enrage.
- (transitive, figuratively) To kindle or intensify (a feeling, as passion or appetite); to excite to an excessive or unnatural action or heat.
- (transitive) To set on fire; to kindle; to cause to burn, flame, or glow.
- (intransitive) To grow morbidly hot, congested, or painful; to become angry or incensed.
- (transitive) To put in a state of inflammation; to produce morbid heat, congestion, or swelling, of.
- catch fire
- cause to start burning
- cause inflammation in
- become inflamed; get sore
- arouse or excite feelings and passions
noun
- The act of magnifying; enlargement; exaggeration.
- the act of expanding something in apparent size
- The apparent enlargement of an object in an image, for example using a lens, or by zooming in on a computer.
- Amplification.
- a photographic print that has been enlarged
- making to seem more important than it really is
- the ratio of the size of an image to the size of the object
verb
- make bigger or more
- become bigger or greater in amount
- (intransitive) (of a quantity, etc.) To become larger or greater, to greaten.
- (astronomy, intransitive) To become more nearly full; to show more of the surface; to wax.
- To multiply by the production of young; to be fertile, fruitful, or prolific.
- (transitive) To make (a quantity, etc.) larger.
noun
- a change resulting in an increase
- a process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important
- the act of increasing something
- a quantity that is added
- the amount by which something increases
- Offspring, progeny.
- For a quantity, the act or process of becoming larger.
- (knitting, crochet) The creation of one or more new stitches; see Increase (knitting).
- An amount by which a quantity is increased.
verb
- become larger or bigger
- make larger
- (transitive) To make (something) larger.
- make large
- add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing
- (intransitive) To grow larger.
- (nautical) To get more astern or parallel with the vessel's course; to draw aft; said of the wind.
- (law) To extend the time allowed for compliance with (an order or rule).
- (transitive) To increase the capacity of; to expand; to give free scope or greater scope to; also, to dilate, as with joy, affection, etc.
- (intransitive) To speak or write at length upon or on (some subject); expand; elaborate
verb
noun
- A cocktail made from a spirit plus soda water etc.
- (rail transport, US) An all clear or full speed ahead signal.
- Clipping of highball glass, a tall glass tumbler used for serving highballs.
- (climbing) A very high bouldering problem, often with a hard landing.
- a mixed drink made of alcoholic liquor mixed with water or a carbonated beverage and served in a tall glass
noun
- extravagant exaggeration
- the act of making something more noticeable than usual
- making to seem more important than it really is
- The act of exaggerating; the act of doing or representing in an excessive manner; a going beyond the bounds of truth, reason, or justice; a hyperbolical representation; hyperbole; overstatement.
- A representation of things beyond natural life, in expression, beauty, power, vigor.
- The act of heaping or piling up.
adj
verb
- become larger, greater, or bigger; expand or gain
- (ergative) To become larger, to increase in magnitude.
- come into existence; take on form or shape
- cause to grow or develop
- increase in size by natural process
- pass into a condition gradually, take on a specific property or attribute; become
- become attached by or as if by the process of growth
- grow emotionally or mature
- develop and reach maturity; undergo maturation
- cultivate by growing, often involving improvements by means of agricultural techniques
- come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes)
- (intransitive) To appear or sprout.
- (transitive) To cause or allow something to become bigger, especially to cultivate plants.
- (intransitive) To develop, to mature.
- (ergative, of plants) To undergo growth; to be present (somewhere)
- (copulative) To assume a condition or quality over time.
verb
- make larger or distend
- to swell or cause to enlarge
- praise extravagantly
- become filled with pride, arrogance, or anger
- (figurative, intransitive) To become proud. (Often written as puffed up with pride.)
- (intransitive) To swell due to injury or illness.
- (transitive) To inflate with air.
- (transitive, intransitive) To fluff up, such as an animal raising its fur or feathers to appear larger or conserve body heat.
noun
intj
verb
- (transitive) To check someone out; to investigate someone that one is interested in.
- (aviation) To zoom climb.
- To manipulate a display so as to magnify or shrink it.
- To move rapidly.
- To participate in a video teleconferencing call.
- (photography) To change the focal length of a zoom lens.
- To move fast with a humming noise.
- To go up sharply.
- move along very quickly
- move with a low humming noise
- rise rapidly
adj
noun
- The sport of gymnastics and dance routines performed on horseback, and on the longe line.
- A vaulted structure; such structures treated as a group.
- The practice of constructing vaults, or a particular method of such construction.
- (architecture) a vaulted structure
- a light leap by a horse in which both hind legs leave the ground before the forelegs come down
verb
adj
- Initialism of oversize.
- Initialism of Old Style, a term used in English language historical studies to indicate that a date conforms to the Julian calendar instead of the modern Gregorian calendar.
- (screenwriting) Abbreviation of offscreen, indicating a line of dialogue is spoken by someone not visible onscreen.
- Initialism of outsize, clothes for large people.
- (film) Initialism of over shoulder.
adv
name
noun
noun
- An act or instance of making something larger.
- (figuratively) A making more obvious or serious; exacerbation.
- Diffuseness of speech or writing; a speaking at length.
- An image, particularly a photograph, that has been enlarged.
- a photographic print that has been enlarged
- the state of being enlarged
- a discussion that provides additional information
- the act of increasing (something) in size or volume or quantity or scope
verb
- be greater in scope or size than some standard
- be superior or better than some standard
- be or do something to a greater degree
- (transitive) To be better than (something).
- (transitive) To be larger, greater than (something).
- (transitive) To go beyond (some limit); to surpass; to be longer than.
- (intransitive) To predominate.
noun
- a quantity much larger than is needed
- immoderation as a consequence of going beyond sufficient or permitted limits
- the state of being more than full
- excessive indulgence
- The state of surpassing or going beyond a limit; the state of being beyond sufficiency, necessity, or duty; more than what is usual or proper.
- (British, insurance) A condition on an insurance policy by which the insured pays for a part of the claim.
- The degree or amount by which one thing or number exceeds another; remainder.
- (geometry) Spherical excess, the amount by which the sum of the three angles of a spherical triangle exceeds two right angles. The spherical excess is proportional to the area of the triangle.
- An act of eating or drinking more than enough.
adj
verb
noun
- a quantity much larger than is needed
- (law) The remainder of a fund appropriated for a particular purpose.
- That which remains when use or need is satisfied, or when a limit is reached; excess; overplus; overage.
- (law) assets left after liabilities and debts, including capital stock have been deducted.
- Specifically, an amount in the public treasury at any time greater than is required for the ordinary purposes of the government.
adj
verb
verb
- (intransitive) To become twice as big.
- (transitive) To double, especially to double again; to increase considerably; to multiply; to intensify.
- (bridge, backgammon) To double an opponent's doubling bid.
- To double again what was reduced to a single state.
- make twice as great or intense
- double again
- double in magnitude, extent, or intensity
noun
verb
- make bigger or better or more complete
- line or stuff with soft material
- write all the required information onto a form
- make fat or plump
- become round, plump, or shapely
- supplement what is thought to be deficient
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see fill, out.
- (transitive) To complete a form or questionnaire with requested information.
- (intransitive) To have one's physique expand with maturity or with surplus weight.
verb
- enlarge or increase
- grow or intensify
- (intransitive, reflexive) To grow; to increase; to become greater.
- (grammar, transitive) To add an augment to.
- (music) To slow the tempo or meter, e.g. for a dramatic or stately passage.
- (music) To increase an interval, especially the largest interval in a triad, by a half step (chromatic semitone).
- (transitive) To increase; to make larger or supplement.
noun
- An increase.
- (Bantu languages) In some languages, an additional vowel prepended to the noun prefix.
- (Indo-European languages) In some languages, a prefix *é- (अ- (a-) in Sanskrit, ἐ- (e-) in Greek) indicating a past tense of a verb.
- (Celtic languages) Especially Old Irish, a preverb, usually ro-, used to give a verb a resultative or potential meaning.
verb
- To increase to an excessive amount.
- (intransitive) To become distended; to swell up.
- (intransitive, veterinary medicine) To get an overdistended rumen, talking of a ruminant.
- To fill soft substance with gas, water, etc.; to cause to swell.
- To fill with vanity or conceit.
- To cause to become distended.
- become bloated or swollen or puff up
- make bloated or swollen
noun
verb
- (transitive) To cause to become bigger.
- (transitive) To cause to grow gradually in force or loudness.
- To be turgid, bombastic, or extravagant.
- (intransitive) To grow gradually in force or loudness.
- (transitive) To raise to arrogance; to puff up; to inflate.
- To be elated; to rise arrogantly.
- To protuberate; to bulge out.
- (intransitive) To become bigger, especially due to being engorged.
- (intransitive) To be raised to arrogance.
- come up (as of feelings and thoughts, or other ephemeral things)
- come up, as of a liquid
- expand abnormally
- increase in size, magnitude, number, or intensity
- cause to become swollen
- become filled with pride, arrogance, or anger
adv
noun
- A long series of ocean waves, generally produced by wind, and lasting after the wind has ceased.
- The act of swelling; increase in size.
- (music) A gradual crescendo followed by diminuendo.
- (music) A device for controlling the volume of a pipe organ.
- A bulge or protuberance.
- The front brow of a saddle bow, connected in the tree by the two saddle bars to the cantle on the other end.
- Increase of power in style, or of rhetorical force.
- (music) A division in a pipe organ, usually the largest enclosed division.
- (geology) An upward protrusion of strata from whose central region the beds dip quaquaversally at a low angle.
- A hillock or similar raised area of terrain.
- (informal) A person of high social standing; an important person.
- the undulating movement of the surface of the open sea
- a crescendo followed by a decrescendo
- a man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance
- a rounded elevation (especially one on an ocean floor)
adj
verb
- (transitive) To enlarge; to make bigger.
- (intransitive) To become wider or larger; to expand.
- (ambitransitive) To speak largely and copiously; to dwell in narration; to enlarge; with "on" or "upon".
- (medicine, ambitransitive) To use a dilator to widen (something, such as a vagina).
- become wider
- add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing
adj
noun
adj
noun
adj
noun
adj
- Using hyperbole: exaggerated.
- enlarged beyond truth or reasonableness
- (color theory) Of a perceived color, having a saturation exceeding 100%.
- Of or relating to hyperbole.
- (topology) Of, pertaining to, or in a hyperbolic space (a space having negative curvature or sectional curvature).
- (mathematics, of a metric space or a geometry) Having negative curvature or sectional curvature.
- (geometry, topology, of an automorphism) Whose domain has two (possibly ideal) fixed points joined by a line mapped to itself by translation.
- Indicates that the specified function is a hyperbolic function rather than a trigonometric function.
- Of or pertaining to a hyperbola.
- of or relating to a hyperbola
adj
suffix
noun
- The act of magnifying; enlargement; exaggeration.
- the act of expanding something in apparent size
- The apparent enlargement of an object in an image, for example using a lens, or by zooming in on a computer.
- Amplification.
- a photographic print that has been enlarged
- making to seem more important than it really is
- the ratio of the size of an image to the size of the object
noun
- extravagant exaggeration
- the act of making something more noticeable than usual
- making to seem more important than it really is
- The act of exaggerating; the act of doing or representing in an excessive manner; a going beyond the bounds of truth, reason, or justice; a hyperbolical representation; hyperbole; overstatement.
- A representation of things beyond natural life, in expression, beauty, power, vigor.
- The act of heaping or piling up.
noun
intj
verb
- (transitive) To check someone out; to investigate someone that one is interested in.
- (aviation) To zoom climb.
- To manipulate a display so as to magnify or shrink it.
- To move rapidly.
- To participate in a video teleconferencing call.
- (photography) To change the focal length of a zoom lens.
- To move fast with a humming noise.
- To go up sharply.
- move along very quickly
- move with a low humming noise
- rise rapidly
noun
- An act or instance of making something larger.
- (figuratively) A making more obvious or serious; exacerbation.
- Diffuseness of speech or writing; a speaking at length.
- An image, particularly a photograph, that has been enlarged.
- a photographic print that has been enlarged
- the state of being enlarged
- a discussion that provides additional information
- the act of increasing (something) in size or volume or quantity or scope
noun
- a quantity much larger than is needed
- immoderation as a consequence of going beyond sufficient or permitted limits
- the state of being more than full
- excessive indulgence
- The state of surpassing or going beyond a limit; the state of being beyond sufficiency, necessity, or duty; more than what is usual or proper.
- (British, insurance) A condition on an insurance policy by which the insured pays for a part of the claim.
- The degree or amount by which one thing or number exceeds another; remainder.
- (geometry) Spherical excess, the amount by which the sum of the three angles of a spherical triangle exceeds two right angles. The spherical excess is proportional to the area of the triangle.
- An act of eating or drinking more than enough.
adj
verb
noun
- a quantity much larger than is needed
- (law) The remainder of a fund appropriated for a particular purpose.
- That which remains when use or need is satisfied, or when a limit is reached; excess; overplus; overage.
- (law) assets left after liabilities and debts, including capital stock have been deducted.
- Specifically, an amount in the public treasury at any time greater than is required for the ordinary purposes of the government.
adj
verb
verb
- exaggerate or make bigger
- increase the volume of
- to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth
- increase in size, volume or significance
- (transitive) To render larger, more extended, or more intense.
- (transitive) To increase the amplitude of something, especially of an electric current.
- (transitive, rhetorical) To enlarge by addition or commenting; to treat copiously by adding particulars, illustrations, etc.; to expand.
- (translation studies) To add content that is not present in the source text to the target text, usually to improve the fluency of the translation.
verb
- exaggerate or make bigger
- to swell or cause to enlarge
- make large
- fill with gas or air
- cause to burst with a violent release of energy
- get very angry and fly into a rage
- burst and release energy as through a violent chemical or physical reaction
- add details to
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see blow, up.
- (transitive) To inflate or fill with air, either by literally blowing or by using a pump.
- (transitive, also figuratively) To cause (something or someone) to explode, or to destroy (something) or maim or kill (someone) by means of an explosion.
- (intransitive, cycling) To succumb to oxygen debt and lose the ability to maintain pace in a race.
- (intransitive, also figuratively) To explode or be destroyed by explosion.
- (of a hangout) To overwhelm (a place) with traffic or volume by revealing its existence to others.
- (transitive) To enlarge or zoom in on.
- (intransitive, mathematics, said of a function) To increase without bound as a function argument or parameter approaches a certain value; to tend toward infinity; to approach infinity as a limit.
- (intransitive, slang) To become much more fat or rotund in a short space of time.
- (of a cell phone, pager, or similar) To receive a large number of calls, texts, or notifications, to the point of being rendered temporarily unusable or exasperating the recipient.
- (intransitive, slang) To suddenly get very angry, to lose one's temper.
- (transitive, figuratively) To represent something as being more important or serious than it actually is; to inflate; to exaggerate.
- (of a cell phone, pager, or similar) To bombard with a large number of calls, texts, or notifications, to the point of rendering temporarily unusable or exasperating the recipient.
- (intransitive, slang, of a device, machine, system, or establishment) To be overwhelmed by unexpectedly high demand, usage, activity, traffic volume, etc.
- (slang, colloquial) To cause a malodorous smell by flatulation, defecation, etc.
- (of a hangout) To be overwhelmed with traffic or volume.
- (intransitive) To fail disastrously.
- (transitive, slang, of a device, machine, system, or establishment) To overwhelm through unexpectedly high demand, activity, usage, traffic volume, etc.
- (intransitive, of a storm) To begin; to gather; to form.
- (slang, intransitive) To become popular very quickly.
- (sports) To blow the whistle.
verb
- exaggerate or make bigger
- make bigger or wider in size, volume, or quantity
- become larger in size or volume or quantity
- grow vigorously
- extend in one or more directions
- expand the influence of
- add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing
- (transitive) To express (something) at length and/or in detail.
- (transitive) To change (something) from a smaller form or size to a larger one; to spread out or lay open.
- (transitive, computing) In a hierarchical list (such as a directory tree or table of contents), to show the subentries of (an entry).
- (intransitive) To increase in extent, number, volume or scope.
- (transitive, algebra) To rewrite (an expression) as a longer, yet equivalent, sum of terms.
- (transitive, arithmetic) To multiply both the numerator and the denominator of a fraction by the same (non-zero) number (which yields a fraction of equal value).
- (transitive) To increase the extent, number, volume or scope of (something).
- (intransitive) To feel generous or optimistic.
- (intransitive) To speak or write at length or in detail.
- (intransitive, algebra, of an expression) To become, by rewriting, a longer, yet equivalent, sum of terms.
- (intransitive) To change or grow from smaller to larger in form, number, or size.
verb
- exaggerate or make bigger
- become inflated
- cause prices to rise by increasing the available currency or credit
- increase the amount or availability of, creating a rise in value
- fill with gas or air
- (figurative, transitive) To represent something as being more important, better, or worse than it actually is; to exaggerate.
- (transitive) To enlarge an object by pushing air (or a gas) into it; to raise or expand abnormally
- (transitive, computing) To decompress (data) that was previously deflated.
- (figurative) To swell; to puff up.
- (intransitive) To enlarge by filling with air (or a gas).
verb
- To exaggerate; to enlarge upon.
- (transitive) To provoke (a person) to anger or rage; to exasperate; to irritate; to incense; to enrage.
- (transitive, figuratively) To kindle or intensify (a feeling, as passion or appetite); to excite to an excessive or unnatural action or heat.
- (transitive) To set on fire; to kindle; to cause to burn, flame, or glow.
- (intransitive) To grow morbidly hot, congested, or painful; to become angry or incensed.
- (transitive) To put in a state of inflammation; to produce morbid heat, congestion, or swelling, of.
- catch fire
- cause to start burning
- cause inflammation in
- become inflamed; get sore
- arouse or excite feelings and passions
verb
- make bigger or more
- become bigger or greater in amount
- (intransitive) (of a quantity, etc.) To become larger or greater, to greaten.
- (astronomy, intransitive) To become more nearly full; to show more of the surface; to wax.
- To multiply by the production of young; to be fertile, fruitful, or prolific.
- (transitive) To make (a quantity, etc.) larger.
noun
- a change resulting in an increase
- a process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important
- the act of increasing something
- a quantity that is added
- the amount by which something increases
- Offspring, progeny.
- For a quantity, the act or process of becoming larger.
- (knitting, crochet) The creation of one or more new stitches; see Increase (knitting).
- An amount by which a quantity is increased.
verb
- become larger or bigger
- make larger
- (transitive) To make (something) larger.
- make large
- add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing
- (intransitive) To grow larger.
- (nautical) To get more astern or parallel with the vessel's course; to draw aft; said of the wind.
- (law) To extend the time allowed for compliance with (an order or rule).
- (transitive) To increase the capacity of; to expand; to give free scope or greater scope to; also, to dilate, as with joy, affection, etc.
- (intransitive) To speak or write at length upon or on (some subject); expand; elaborate
verb
noun
- A cocktail made from a spirit plus soda water etc.
- (rail transport, US) An all clear or full speed ahead signal.
- Clipping of highball glass, a tall glass tumbler used for serving highballs.
- (climbing) A very high bouldering problem, often with a hard landing.
- a mixed drink made of alcoholic liquor mixed with water or a carbonated beverage and served in a tall glass
verb
- become larger, greater, or bigger; expand or gain
- (ergative) To become larger, to increase in magnitude.
- come into existence; take on form or shape
- cause to grow or develop
- increase in size by natural process
- pass into a condition gradually, take on a specific property or attribute; become
- become attached by or as if by the process of growth
- grow emotionally or mature
- develop and reach maturity; undergo maturation
- cultivate by growing, often involving improvements by means of agricultural techniques
- come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes)
- (intransitive) To appear or sprout.
- (transitive) To cause or allow something to become bigger, especially to cultivate plants.
- (intransitive) To develop, to mature.
- (ergative, of plants) To undergo growth; to be present (somewhere)
- (copulative) To assume a condition or quality over time.
verb
- make larger or distend
- to swell or cause to enlarge
- praise extravagantly
- become filled with pride, arrogance, or anger
- (figurative, intransitive) To become proud. (Often written as puffed up with pride.)
- (intransitive) To swell due to injury or illness.
- (transitive) To inflate with air.
- (transitive, intransitive) To fluff up, such as an animal raising its fur or feathers to appear larger or conserve body heat.
verb
- be greater in scope or size than some standard
- be superior or better than some standard
- be or do something to a greater degree
- (transitive) To be better than (something).
- (transitive) To be larger, greater than (something).
- (transitive) To go beyond (some limit); to surpass; to be longer than.
- (intransitive) To predominate.
verb
- (intransitive) To become twice as big.
- (transitive) To double, especially to double again; to increase considerably; to multiply; to intensify.
- (bridge, backgammon) To double an opponent's doubling bid.
- To double again what was reduced to a single state.
- make twice as great or intense
- double again
- double in magnitude, extent, or intensity
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- make bigger or better or more complete
- line or stuff with soft material
- write all the required information onto a form
- make fat or plump
- become round, plump, or shapely
- supplement what is thought to be deficient
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see fill, out.
- (transitive) To complete a form or questionnaire with requested information.
- (intransitive) To have one's physique expand with maturity or with surplus weight.
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- enlarge or increase
- grow or intensify
- (intransitive, reflexive) To grow; to increase; to become greater.
- (grammar, transitive) To add an augment to.
- (music) To slow the tempo or meter, e.g. for a dramatic or stately passage.
- (music) To increase an interval, especially the largest interval in a triad, by a half step (chromatic semitone).
- (transitive) To increase; to make larger or supplement.
noun
- An increase.
- (Bantu languages) In some languages, an additional vowel prepended to the noun prefix.
- (Indo-European languages) In some languages, a prefix *é- (अ- (a-) in Sanskrit, ἐ- (e-) in Greek) indicating a past tense of a verb.
- (Celtic languages) Especially Old Irish, a preverb, usually ro-, used to give a verb a resultative or potential meaning.
verb
- To increase to an excessive amount.
- (intransitive) To become distended; to swell up.
- (intransitive, veterinary medicine) To get an overdistended rumen, talking of a ruminant.
- To fill soft substance with gas, water, etc.; to cause to swell.
- To fill with vanity or conceit.
- To cause to become distended.
- become bloated or swollen or puff up
- make bloated or swollen
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- (transitive) To cause to become bigger.
- (transitive) To cause to grow gradually in force or loudness.
- To be turgid, bombastic, or extravagant.
- (intransitive) To grow gradually in force or loudness.
- (transitive) To raise to arrogance; to puff up; to inflate.
- To be elated; to rise arrogantly.
- To protuberate; to bulge out.
- (intransitive) To become bigger, especially due to being engorged.
- (intransitive) To be raised to arrogance.
- come up (as of feelings and thoughts, or other ephemeral things)
- come up, as of a liquid
- expand abnormally
- increase in size, magnitude, number, or intensity
- cause to become swollen
- become filled with pride, arrogance, or anger
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- A long series of ocean waves, generally produced by wind, and lasting after the wind has ceased.
- The act of swelling; increase in size.
- (music) A gradual crescendo followed by diminuendo.
- (music) A device for controlling the volume of a pipe organ.
- A bulge or protuberance.
- The front brow of a saddle bow, connected in the tree by the two saddle bars to the cantle on the other end.
- Increase of power in style, or of rhetorical force.
- (music) A division in a pipe organ, usually the largest enclosed division.
- (geology) An upward protrusion of strata from whose central region the beds dip quaquaversally at a low angle.
- A hillock or similar raised area of terrain.
- (informal) A person of high social standing; an important person.
- the undulating movement of the surface of the open sea
- a crescendo followed by a decrescendo
- a man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance
- a rounded elevation (especially one on an ocean floor)
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- (transitive) To enlarge; to make bigger.
- (intransitive) To become wider or larger; to expand.
- (ambitransitive) To speak largely and copiously; to dwell in narration; to enlarge; with "on" or "upon".
- (medicine, ambitransitive) To use a dilator to widen (something, such as a vagina).
- become wider
- add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing
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- The sport of gymnastics and dance routines performed on horseback, and on the longe line.
- A vaulted structure; such structures treated as a group.
- The practice of constructing vaults, or a particular method of such construction.
- (architecture) a vaulted structure
- a light leap by a horse in which both hind legs leave the ground before the forelegs come down
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- Initialism of oversize.
- Initialism of Old Style, a term used in English language historical studies to indicate that a date conforms to the Julian calendar instead of the modern Gregorian calendar.
- (screenwriting) Abbreviation of offscreen, indicating a line of dialogue is spoken by someone not visible onscreen.
- Initialism of outsize, clothes for large people.
- (film) Initialism of over shoulder.
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- Using hyperbole: exaggerated.
- enlarged beyond truth or reasonableness
- (color theory) Of a perceived color, having a saturation exceeding 100%.
- Of or relating to hyperbole.
- (topology) Of, pertaining to, or in a hyperbolic space (a space having negative curvature or sectional curvature).
- (mathematics, of a metric space or a geometry) Having negative curvature or sectional curvature.
- (geometry, topology, of an automorphism) Whose domain has two (possibly ideal) fixed points joined by a line mapped to itself by translation.
- Indicates that the specified function is a hyperbolic function rather than a trigonometric function.
- Of or pertaining to a hyperbola.
- of or relating to a hyperbola