embiggen

embiggen
verb /ɛmˈbɪɡə̆n/
<! Nonce status questionable, considering its use in an academic paper (see the 2006 cite) To make or become bigger.

Are there not, however, barbarous verbs in all languages? , but the people magnified them, to make great or embiggen, if we may invent an English parallel as ugly. After all, use is nearly everything.


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