v. poet. [f. LARGE a. + -EN5.]

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  1.  intr. To grow large or larger.

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1844.  Patmore, Poems, 145. Eyes, large always, slowly largen.

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1889.  Lowell, in Atlantic Monthly, LXIV. 148. The one eye that meets my view, Lidless and strangely largening.

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  2.  trans. To make large or larger, enlarge.

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1869.  Lowell, Pict. fr. Appledore, vi. 51. No more a vision, reddened, largened, The moon dips toward her mountain nest.

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1881.  Emily Dickinson, Lett. (1894), I. 186. Each new width of love largens all the rest.

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