All maximise synonyms

verb maximise

• make the most of — in the greatest quantity, amount, measure, degree, or number: to win the most votes.
• exploit — Make full use of and derive benefit from (a resource).
• take advantage of — any state, circumstance, opportunity, or means specially favorable to success, interest, or any desired end: the advantage of a good education.
• increase — to make greater, as in number, size, strength, or quality; augment; add to: to increase taxes.
• expand — explain
• amplify — If you amplify a sound, you make it louder, usually by using electronic equipment.
• raise — to move to a higher position; lift up; elevate: to raise one's hand; sleepy birds raising their heads and looking about.
• boost — If one thing boosts another, it causes it to increase, improve, or be more successful.
• augment — To augment something means to make it larger, stronger, or more effective by adding something to it.
• enlarge — Make or become bigger or more extensive.
• extend — Cause to cover a larger area; make longer or wider.
• blow up — If someone blows something up or if it blows up, it is destroyed by an explosion.
• bloat — to swell or cause to swell, as with a liquid, air, or wind
• escalate — Increase rapidly.
• exaggerate — Represent (something) as being larger, greater, better, or worse than it really is.
• magnify — to increase the apparent size of, as a lens does.
• overestimate — to estimate at too high a value, amount, rate, or the like: Don't overestimate the car's trade-in value.
• pad — Packet Assembler/Disassembler
• widen — Make or become wider.
• aerate — To aerate a substance means to cause air or gas to pass through it.
• aggrandize — To aggrandize someone means to make them seem richer, more powerful, and more important than they really are. To aggrandize a building means to make it more impressive.
• balloon — A balloon is a small, thin, rubber bag that you blow air into so that it becomes larger and rounder or longer. Balloons are used as toys or decorations.
• cram — If you cram things or people into a container or place, you put them into it, although there is hardly enough room for them.
• dilate — to make wider or larger; cause to expand.
• distend — Swell or cause to swell by pressure from inside.
• exalt — Hold (someone or something) in very high regard; think or speak very highly of.
• pyramid — Architecture. (in ancient Egypt) a quadrilateral masonry mass having smooth, steeply sloping sides meeting at an apex, used as a tomb. (in ancient Egypt and pre-Columbian Central America) a quadrilateral masonry mass, stepped and sharply sloping, used as a tomb or a platform for a temple.
• spread — to draw, stretch, or open out, especially over a flat surface, as something rolled or folded (often followed by out).
• stretch — to draw out or extend (oneself, a body, limbs, wings, etc.) to the full length or extent (often followed by out): to stretch oneself out on the ground.
• surcharge — an additional charge, tax, or cost.
• beef up — If you beef up something, you increase, strengthen, or improve it.
• build up — If you build up something or if it builds up, it gradually becomes bigger, for example because more is added to it.
• flesh out — the soft substance of a human or other animal body, consisting of muscle and fat.
• pump up — an apparatus or machine for raising, driving, exhausting, or compressing fluids or gases by means of a piston, plunger, or set of rotating vanes.
• overdo — to do to excess; overindulge in: to overdo dieting.
• overstate — to state too strongly; exaggerate: to overstate one's position in a controversy.
• overuse — to use too much or too often: to overuse an expression.
• accent — Someone who speaks with a particular accent pronounces the words of a language in a distinctive way that shows which country, region, or social class they come from.
• accentuate — To accentuate something means to emphasize it or make it more noticeable.
• dramatise — to put into a form suitable for acting on a stage.
• hyperbolize — to use hyperbole; exaggerate.
• mug — a drinking cup, usually cylindrical in shape, having a handle, and often of a heavy substance, as earthenware.
• overact — (of an actor) act a role in an exaggerated manner.
• overdraw — to draw upon (an account, allowance, etc.) in excess of the balance standing to one's credit or at one's disposal: It was the first time he had ever overdrawn his account.
• overstress — overemphasize.
• overwork — to cause to work too hard, too much, or too long; weary or exhaust with work (often used reflexively): Don't overwork yourself on that new job.
• lay it on thick — to put or place in a horizontal position or position of rest; set down: to lay a book on a desk.
• point up — a sharp or tapering end, as of a dagger.
• show off — a theatrical production, performance, or company.