embiggen

1. (nonstandard, usually humorous, ergative) To enlarge; to make or become bigger.Examples: "Are there not, however, barbarous verbs in all languages? ἀλλ’ ἐμεγάλυνεν αυτοὺς ὁ λαός, 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."; "A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man."; "[Page 24] For large P, the three-form fluxes are dilute, and the gradient of the Myers potential encouraging an anti-D3 to embiggen is very mild. [Page 26] While in both cases for P anti-D3-branes the probe approximation is clearly not good, in the set up of this paper we could argue that there is a competing effect which can overcome the desire of the anti-D3s to embiggen, namely their attraction towards the wrapped D5s."Synonyms: swell, grow, aggrandize, bigger#Verb, enlarge, magnifyAntonyms: ensmallen, debigulate, shrink, diminish, belittle, contract