Meanings
verbenlarge oneself (third-person singular simple present enlarges oneself, present participle enlarging oneself, simple past and past participle enlarged oneself)
present singular third person enlarges oneself · participle present enlarging oneself · participle past enlarged oneself · past enlarged oneself
- To give free vent to speech.
[They] enlarged themselves with as high expressions against the government as at first
1702–1704, Edward [Hyde, 1st] Earl of Clarendon, (please specify |book=I to XVI), in The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Begun in the Year 1641. […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed at the [Sheldonian] Theater
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