reenlarge

English

Etymology

re- +‎ enlarge

Verb

reenlarge (third-person singular simple present reenlarges, present participle reenlarging, simple past and past participle reenlarged)

1. To enlarge again.
   • 1974, Murray D. Dailey, Barbara Hill, A Summary of Knowledge of the Southern California Coastal Zone and Offshore Areas, pages 7.6-7.7:

     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.

   • 2017, Peter Naccarato, Zachary Nowak, Elgin K. Eckert, Representing Italy Through Food, →ISBN:

     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."