enlarge

To make (something) larger.

We'll need to enlarge our budget if we want to include the helicopter ride in our holiday.

To grow larger.

To increase the capacity of; to expand; to give free scope or greater scope to; also, to dilate, as with joy, affection, etc.

Knowledge enlarges the mind.

O ye Corinthians, our […] heart is enlarged.

To speak or write at length upon or on (some subject); expand; elaborate

We are then told of the basilisk killing by staring, and of a mous running round a snake till it rushes into the jaws of death. After copying many such anilities, the author adds only, "but our readers will excuse our enlarging."

I shall enlarge upon the Point.

To release; to set at large.

Like a Lionesse lately enlarged.

Finding no meanes how I might us enlarge, / But if that Dwarfe I could with me convay, / I lightly snatcht him up and with me bore away.